As we return to the movies, SFJFF42 is highlighting stories that reflect our current moment of personal and societal awakening. What moves us from a space of inertia to action, in our lives and in the world? Who do we become when we pass the point of no return? These films ask those questions and leave it to the audience to come up with the answers.
When women of various faiths gather for Yael’s destination wedding at her aunt Alegría’s picturesque family home on the Mediterranean coast, the bonds of family and friendship are tested in this warm, uplifting comedy.
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As a young soldier, Eran Paz documented his unit members taking over Palestinian homes in the West Bank. Eighteen years later, he confronts his past and returns to where it all began.
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After the birth of her profoundly disabled son, a butch queer woman taps into her experiences with Butoh dance and the off-Broadway show Stomp to find the somatic wisdom she needs to push through a traumatic version of motherhood she never expected.
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Meir and Tova are an Israeli married couple, prematurely aged by their semi-retired life of banal comfort. When a sexy bachelor moves into the penthouse, all their routines will be gleefully upended.
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A wedding brings a middle-class Palestinian businessman and his family back to the small Arab village where he grew up. An unexpected military lockdown forces him to reassess his past and confront his future.
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All Pinhas wants is a supportive family life and to study for his bar mitzvah. His secular, single, hard-working mother can't provide it. Maybe their religious neighbor can.
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Seven longtime friends gather for dinner to watch a rare lunar eclipse but the evening takes an unexpected turn when they start playing a game that’ll change the course of their lives forever.
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Two young sisters from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community encounter secular society when they meet their divorced father’s equestrian girlfriend for the first time.
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While on summer vacation with her large family on a bucolic Italian farm, the rebellious young ultra-Orthodox Esther meets the divorced, non-devout Catholic Elio. The two opposites gradually discover that, with mutual admiration and magnetism, opposites attract.
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