In her award-winning documentary Body Typed, up-and-coming young Jewish filmmaker Jesse Epstein explores our society’s complex and distorted obsession with physical perfection. In a series of short films—Wet Dreams and False Images, The Guarantee and 34x25x36—she presents her audience with three different portraits of life in a body-fixated world.

Ever wanted to know what it's really like to be a teen in Israel? The Boston Jewish Film Festival recently showed a documentary, True to Life, about Israeli teens' experiences in Ramla, a lower-class suburb near Jerusalem. What's really cool is that the film was made, produced, and shot by the teens who star in it.