An underground musician becomes obsessed with Bernie Madoff's massive financial fraud and finds herself inside a real-life meta-musical about trust, deception, and healing.

Created by and starring Alicia Jo Rabins, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff is a 75-minute independent feature film which The Atlantic calls “a blessing.” The film screened at Lincoln Center, the Castro, and at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, and was winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2021 Ashland Independent Film Festival, Terry Porter Visionary Award at the 2021 Sarasota Film Festival and Best Young Director Award at the 2021 Port Townsend Film Festival.

Directed by Alicia J. Rose; co-adapted for screen from Rabins’ original one-woman show by Alicia Jo Rabins and Alicia J. Rose. Yes, their names are very similar but they are different people!