The Wedding Entertainer (FREE University Screening)

The Wedding Entertainer Southwest Premiere Director: Gidi Dar Film Trailer: https://youtu.be/05cjRXHDkoE?si=8_IIlhuiUpZIjsvn When: November 18, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. Free screening at Texas Hillel for any university students or staff who register in advance: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGh-oMvvXnmh9hOW4tOr2javq0OzdeQh_u3Uw4biMsRKZcGQ/viewform) About The Wedding Entertainer: Moishe’s unmarried, only daughter has finally found a suitor - and Moishe, once the most sought-after badhan by the wealthiest families of Jerusalem’s Hasidic enclave, can’t afford the wedding. A gifted comedian and singer whose career was long ago drowned in drink, Moishe can now barely feed his family, let alone marry off the daughter whose happiness means everything to him. Salvation seems to arrive in the form of Yisroel Bumchik, Moishe’s childhood best friend, who left the Holy Land years ago to make his fortune in America and has now returned to Jerusalem to host his son’s extravagant wedding. The joyous reunion is overshadowed by the fact that Yisroel has brought along Meshulem - America’s most celebrated badhan - whose ultra-modern style is an affront to everything Moishe has given his life to. This collision of old and new forces Moishe toward a reckoning with the bottle, his pride, and the hunger for greatness that ruined him once before, and now threatens the one thing he cannot bear to lose: his daughter’s future. A comedic, modern-day tale in the tradition of Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer, set in a shtetl in the heart of Jerusalem. Followed by an AJFF interview with director Gidi Dar and screenwriter/lead actor Shuli Rand.