The Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival turns six this year, returning to the Manship Theatre with several acclaimed films. “BRJFF offers the opportunity for folks in our area of all ages and interests to view award-winning cinema that would not otherwise be available here on the big screen,” said festival chairman Harvey Hoffman. “We include everything from comedy to romance to drama to documentary … with universal themes and appeal." On the bill this year are:

• Wednesday, 7 pm: Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story: An astonishing account of Yonaton Netanyahu, the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who led (and died in) the 1976 raid that freed one hundred hijacked hostages held by terrorists in Entebbe, Uganda.
• Thursday, 7 pm: Torn: The story of Polish Catholic priest Romauld Waszkinel, who discovers twelve years after his ordination that he was born to Jewish parents. The film follows his journey from conducting Mass in a Polish church, to his life as an observant Jew on an Israeli kibbutz.
• Saturday, 7:30 pm: Hava Nagila (The movie): Featuring interviews with Harry Belafonte, Leonard Nimoy, Connie Francis, Glen Campbell, Regina Spektor and more, Hava Nagila follows the ubiquitous party song on its journey from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the kibbutzim of Palestine to the cul-de-sacs of suburban America.
• Sunday, 1 pm: Foreign Letters: A film about the healing power of friendship set in the pre-email 1980s. Young Ellie is newly returned to the United States from Israel and anxiously awaiting letters from her friend back home. But life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age.
• Sunday, 4 pm: Footnote: A story of insane academic competition and the very complicated relationship between father and son. When Eliezer learns that he is to get a valuable honor for scholarship, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. In a darkly funny twist, Uriel is forced to choose between his own career and his father’s. Will he sabotage his father’s glory?

www.brjff.com to view clips from the films. Reserved seats are $8.50. 100 Lafayette Street, inside the Shaw Center for the Arts. (225) 344-0334 or manshiptheatre.org.