A comedy about a handful of Jewish men training to be sumo wrestlers?

You’ll find that and more during the 5-day, Ann Arbor leg of the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival — with events in Rochester, Flint, Birmingham and Commerce Township, too — happening at the Michigan Theater April 25-29.

The festival will screen 14 films that examine various aspects of Jewish life, culture and history, and several speakers will offer their insights during post-show discussions.

A new addition to this year’s fest is a program called Lunch and Learn — mid-day discussions that focus on “The Michigan Film Industry” (next Wednesday, with the Michigan Film Office’s Ken Droz and U-M screenwriting professor Jim Burnstein) and “Genealogy: Finding the Family You Never Knew You Had” (next Thursday, with Michael Levine and “Bon-Papa” filmmaker Leila Ferault). These lunchtime talks start at 11:30 a.m., and admission costs $10.

But the aforementioned sumo wrestling comedy, “A Matter of Size,” will officially kick off the fest on Sunday, April 25 at 8 p.m.

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Other comedies featured at Ann Arbor’s JFF include “Hello Goodbye,” starring Gérard DePardieu and Fanny Ardant as empty-nesters who leave their Paris home in order to embrace their Jewish heritage and move to Tel Aviv; the film screens at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 29. And from Australia, “Hey! Hey! It’s Esther Blueburger!” closes the festival at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 29, focusing on the unlikely friendship that develops between young, awkward Esther and cool-girl Sunni (“Whale Rider”’s Keisha Castle-Hughes). Toni Collette also stars.

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Movie lovers will likely flock to 2 films: the mockumentary “HAG: The Story of the Hasidic Actors Guild,” which is a serio-comic hybrid of fact and fiction chronicling the life of Yisrael “Izzi” Lifschutz, actor and consultant for the films “The Chosen,” “Stranger Among Us,” and “Pi” (Lifschutz will answer questions following the screening, which starts at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 27); and “The Brothers Warner,” which documents the story of a family who, perhaps more than any other, shaped American movies and the industry that made them(8 p.m. Wednesday, April 28).

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Other documentaries at this year’s JFF are “Tel Aviv Jaffa,” on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., which traces the history of Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, the secular and youthful alternative to Jerusalem; “Bon-Papa: A Man Under German Occupation,” on Thursday at 5 p.m., which follows a filmmaker as she tries to find out about her non-Jewish grandfather’s activity in Vichy, France during the war (filmmaker Leila Ferault will talk about the film with Kathy Meyer after the screening); “No. 4 Street of Our Lady,” playing on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., about a Polish-Catholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust; and on Monday at 1:30 p.m., 2 docs will be shown together: “Leaving the Fold” and “City of Borders” (Ann Arbor native Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser will lead a discussion after this double bill).

“Leaving” focuses on 5 young people who were raised in the ultra-Orthodox world and chose to leave it — including 2 young men and their Orthodox rabbi father, who manage to sustain a relationship while agreeing to disagree.

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“City of Borders” — shown recently as part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, too — follows the daily lives of 5 Israelis and Palestinians at Jerusalem’s only gay bar.

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The documentary “Disturbing the Universe,” on Wednesday at 5 p.m., focuses on “the most hated lawyer in America,” William Kunstler, who worked on high profile cases involving the Freedom Riders, the Chicago 8 activists who protested the Vietnam War, the Attica uprising, and Wounded Knee. The film, made by Kunstler’s daughters Emily and Sarah Kunstler, will feature a post-screening discussion with Emily Kunstler.

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Finally, in the narrative drama category, there’s “The Debt,” playing at 5 p.m. on Monday, which is an espionage thriller about a retired Mossad agent, Rachel, who assisted in the capture of the “Surgeon of Birkenau,” a Nazi war criminal. The man’s trial remained unfinished because of his alleged suicide, but 30 years later, a man living in a Ukraine nursing home claims to be the “Surgeon,” and Rachel must investigate.

Another drama is “For My Father,” on Tuesday at 8 p.m., which focuses on a Palestinian man who’s pressured into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to restore his father’s honor; but when his explosive vest fails to ignite, he meets a woman named Keren who changes everything.

And “Jump,” playing on Monday at 8 p.m., features Patrick Swayze as an attorney in a story about a celebrity photographer for LIFE magazine who’s brought up on charges, by the Nazi government, for killing his father. (Political science professor Lars Rensmann will lead a discussion following the film.)

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For more information about the Jewish Film Festival, visit the JCC of Greater Ann Arbor website, or the Michigan Theater’s site.

Jenn McKee is the entertainment digital journalist for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at jennmckee@annarbor.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.