The Return: A Hasidic Experience is a 1979 American documentary film on the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement and the American Jews who become Hasidic. The film was entered in the 1981 American Film Festival where it was a awards finalist.[1][2] The film was directed by Barry Ralbag and Yisrael Lifshutz.[3] The film's narrator was Isaac Bashevis Singer.[2]