Carmel Jewish Film Festival returns with a medley of choices.

Susan Greenbaum, who co-chairs the Carmel Jewish Film Festival, can conjure many high points from its six-year history. The 2013 audience singing “Hava Nagila” with the filmmaker following the film Hava Nagila. The talk with Holocaust survivor David Lux, whose parents didn’t make it out of German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, a story told in the film Nicky’s Family in 2014.

“There have been so many powerful moments,” Greenbaum says.

This year’s festival comprises eight films in four venues, stretched out over two weeks, topped off with panels, Q&As and receptions. The topics range, as before, from the sober to the festive.

The Dove Flyer (6:30pm reception, 7:30pm film, March 19 at Golden Bough Playhouse) is a narrative film that follows the shifting fortunes of a Jewish family living in Iraq in the 1940s and ’50s. Jews had lived in Iraq since 586 B.C. as one of the longest continuous populations of Jewish communities in world history.

But in 1950, during growing support for communism and Zionism, the Iraqi government scapegoated Jews, took their resources, and deported them out of the country (many went on their own accord). David Sabih and Sadok Masliyah, two local men who were there during the expulsion, speak after the film.

Flory Jagoda, 92, is a Bosnian Jewish-American musician from Spain’s Sephardic Jewish lineage. Relocated to Sarajevo, her community was nearly destroyed and 42 of her family members were killed in the Holocaust.

She is the lone survivor who carries not just the bloodline, but the musical tradition of centuries-old, Spanish-derived Jewish music called Ladino and Bosnian folk music calledsevdalinka. A documentary, Flory’s Flame, will be screened at Golden Bough Playhouse (6:30pm reception, 7:30pm film, March 12) and Jagoda will come to play a rare concert after the film.

Other notable films and appearances include Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (7pm, March 17 at Congregation Beth Israel). Bikel – an actor, author, folk singer and activist, best known for having played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof more often than any other actor – died last July. His wife will speak at the screening.

The festival opener, The Green Prince (4pm reception, 5pm film, March 6, Middlebury Institute of International Studies), is an espionage thriller of a documentary about the teenaged son of a Hamas founder getting turned into an informant by an agent with the Israeli security agency Shin Bet. A panel discussion about terrorism follows.

The films revolve around the varied worlds of Jewish life, but Greenbaum says they hold universal messages, too.

6TH ANNUAL CARMEL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL runs various days, venues and times March 5-20. $12/films; $15/receptions; $130/all-access pass. 624-2015, www.CarmelJFF.org