Documentary filmmaker John J. Michalczyk offers a detailed history of Jewish and Irish immigration to Boston at the turn of the last century and examines the rivalry and mistrust that existed between the two groups—as well as the attempts at reconciliation.

A heartfelt celebration of memory and family, this documentary chronicles the reminiscences of 96-year-old Mary Crehan Dillon, the filmmaker’s grandmother, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1911 and settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Filmmaker Jim Lane explores Boston-Irish tribalism as evidenced in Otto Preminger’s 1963 film The Cardinal, in which his own Boston-Irish father played an extra. Memoir, film analysis, and sociological study are deftly interwoven in this personal documentary, which receives its premiere screening here.