Two films are set on Aug. 4, for the 4 p.m. showing.  The first is “The Soldier on Smithdown Road.” In 1947, anti-Semitic riots broke out across the UK after two British soldiers were kidnapped and murdered in Mandate Palestine. This short and film captures Louis Scholnick, a Jewish World War II veteran and resident of Liverpool, as he defends his family business in the face of a violent mob that includes friends and neighbors. It will be followed by “Midas Man” is a biopic of Brian Epstein, the inspired music entrepreneur who discovered the Beatles. The film traces his life, beginning as the son of Jewish furniture store owners in Liverpool. “Blond Boy from Casbah” will be shown at 8 p.m. Director Alexandre Arcady takes viewers on a nostalgic journey through his boyhood in French Algeria. In the film, Antoine, as part of a film project, takes his own son back to the Casbah. He revisits the experiences and memories that shaped him before he and his family fled the country after the bloody war for independence.

August 11 at 4 p.m. will feature “Pink Lady,” a story of an ultra-Orthodox couple who are terrorized by a blackmailer’s threat to reveal that the husband is gay. The film shows how the prospect of public shame undoes the life of a loving family, in a community where rituals and rules must be observed. At 8 p.m., “Bad Shabbos” will be shown. This is comedy, bordering on farce, is about an interfaith family’s Shabbat dinner where an accidental death causes things to spiral into chaos. Actor Kyra Sedgwick plays the befuddled Jewish mother.

Final festival films  start with “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round” at 4 p.m. on Aug. 18. This documentary is about a campaign to desegregate a merry-go-round at a big amusement park near Washington, D.C. in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. Archival photos, interviews and film footage flesh out the story whose centerpiece really is the relationships that were built between Jews, African Americans and labor organizers who strategized and protested day after day through the summer of 1960. At 8 p.m. “Running on Sand,” an award-winning comedy-drama will be shown. In this film, Omari is a refugee from Eritrea who works as a dishwasher in Tel Aviv. He gets tagged as an illegal — and is slated for deportation. After he runs from the authorities, he gets mistaken for a Nigerian soccer star who is arriving in Israel to play on a Maccabi team in Netanya.

Information may be found at https://berkshirejewishfilmfestival.org. Ticket price for all films is $15 and may only be purchased at the theater on the day of the film. Season passes are available for $150 and may be purchased in advance on the Congregation Knesset Israel website. All proceeds are directed to support children at the Knesset Israel Hebrew School in Pittsfield.