Double Feature: Sunday,November 8, 1:30pm
Tickets: $15
Location disclosed upon registration
Featuring talkback with Director Caroline Kaye
Directed by Caroline Kaye, Documentary, USA, English, 81min, 2026
Filmed over 30 years, Caroline Kaye’s intimate documentary tells a story of Jewish immigration that is both familiar and entirely new. This is the story of a Greek family’s odyssey to America, about how history is preserved and lost, and about what it means to land as a Sephardic Jew in the overwhelmingly Ashkenazic world of New York in the 20th Century.
Told through archival video and (literal!) threads of memory, Left Lane Straight is a film that celebrates a unique family as they define what it means to belong and how to find home.
Caroline Kaye spent the first half of her career as a journalist profiling inspiring women, starting at Good Housekeeping magazine and writing for Teen People and Salon.com before becoming a contributing editor at More magazine. She then moved into photography, specializing in nuance rich portraiture. Caroline studied Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at Oberlin College, where she would combine her focus on Balkan Jewry with her family’s intimate stories. Based in the Hudson Valley, Kaye is a recipient of NYSCA’s individual artist grant and is experimenting with embroidery and mixed media to explore her family’s history.