2025 FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Our thoughtfully curated film program spans 75 years of cinema history, featuring films unseen for decades alongside exciting new discoveries from 2025. Purchase tickets below or at Shadowlands Stages Theater. Our full lineup for 2025 will be released soon!

  • Judy Gold

    JUDY GOLD: SERIOUS TALK ABOUT COMEDY

    FRIDAY, OCTOBER. 31, 4 PM
    Doors open at 3:15
    AT THE COMMON GOOD
    119 CANAL STREET, ELLENVILLE

    A seriously intimate and casual chat with Emmy winner Judy Gold, the outrageous comedian and actor, about her extensive career and how her Jewish identity and the Borscht Belt shaped it. After a Q&A, Gold will sign her book about freedom of speech, Yes I Can Say That.  

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  • DIRTY DANCING

    OPENING NIGHT FILM
    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 7:30 PM
    AT SHADOWLAND STAGES

    During a Catskills summer in 1963, teenager Frances "Baby" Houseman begins spreading her wings to the distress of her overprotective parents, and falls for a charismatic dance teacher at her resort.

    Talkback with film screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein and New York Times journalist Joyce Wadler.

    Thank you to the sponsors of this screening:
    Borscht Belt
    Hudson Whiskey
    Streit's

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Borscht Belt Film Fest is a project of the Borscht Belt Museum. The museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Borscht Belt resort era, and celebrating its history as a refuge from bigotry, the cradle of stand-up comedy and a cultural catalyst that left deep imprints on America.