SUN & STARS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL to Welcome Movie Directors at Three Screenings

BOCA RATON, Fla. - EntSun -- (West Palm Beach, FL – January 19, 2026) The Donald M. Ephraim Sun & Stars International Film Festival© (SASIFF), presented by MorseLife, will launch its fourth season with screenings of memorable, world class movies, including an audience-wowing assortment of comedies, dramas, and documentaries—plus, special guest appearances at three premiere screenings.

Over 13 days SASIFF will offer screenings at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse (January 25-31) at 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach 33401; Hooky Entertainment Delray Marketplace (February 1-5) at 14775 Lyons Road in Delray Beach 33446; and the new Glazer Hall (February 6) at 70 Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach 33480

Sunday, January 25 – 7:30 pm

ETHAN BLOOM

(Coming-of-age Comedy, 2025, North Palm Beach County Premiere. Directed by Herschel Faber. USA, 90-minutes)

The Opening Night Screening of The Donald M. Ephraim Sun & Stars International Film Festival©, presented by MorseLife.

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This delightful film paints a revealing portrait of adolescence, humorously exploring the struggles of an awkward teenager navigating the loss of his mother, his search for faith, and the pressures of his father's expectations.

Starring Hank Greenspan from the CBS hit comedy The Neighborhood and movie/TV actress Rachelle Lefevre (White House Down, Proven Innocent, Boston Legal, Big Wolf on Campus), ETHAN BLOOM captures the perils of first love, religion, and speculation about the afterlife as the 13-year-old title character attempts to evade his Bar Mitzvah by converting to Catholicism. Meanwhile, his widowed dad (played by Joshua Malina from The West Wing) has engaged curvaceous redheaded Rabbi Dani to administer private instruction in the Torah. Talk about complications. Torn in multiple directions, Ethan communes nightly with his mom and dead dog in the heaven he imagines for them, while struggling by day with his enthusiastic discovery of solo pleasures of the flesh. It all comes together in a spectacularly moving finale when faith, sex, love and family all coalesce in well-deserved harmony.

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Note: Director Herschel Faber and screenwriter Maylen Dominguez will be present for audience discussion.

Attached Images:

(Photo Credit: Sun & Stars International Film Festival)

1.   ETHAN BLOOM – Director Herschel Faber (January 25, 7:30 pm)

2.   ETHAN BLOOM – Screenwriter Maylen Dominguez (January 25, 7:30 pm)

3.   STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE – Director Maura Smith (January 31, 7 pm)

4.   A MAN WITH SOLE: THE IMPACT OF KENNETH COLE – Kenneth Cole (February 6, 7:30 pm)

5.   A MAN WITH SOLE: THE IMPACT OF KENNETH COLE – Director Dori Berinstein (February 6, 7:30 pm)

Available for Interview:

Barbara Scharres, Artistic Director

The Donald M. Ephraim Sun & Stars International Film Festival

773.875.0304

Bscharres@sasiff.org

Media Contact:

Gary Schweikhart

PR-BS

561.756.4298

gary@pr-bs.net