Festival Shorts

Don't miss the twenty-one short films in this year's program, each of which tells a big story. Narrative shorts compete for the SFJFF Film Movement Award and documentary shorts compete for the juried Best Short Documentary Award, the winner of which is eligible for the Academy Award in Documentary (Short Subject).

Oys and Joys: Narrative Shorts

Oys and Joys: Narrative Shorts

Through a variety of styles and modes, these filmmakers imagine and reimagine Jewish life - its beauty, its challenges, and its edges - in this program of short fiction films.

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Peripheral Visions (Shorts Program)

Peripheral Visions (Shorts Program)

Peripheral Visions  provides a cinematic exploration of the unique cultural contributions of Jews of Color in expanding collective understandings of what it means to be Jewish.

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Reality Bites: Documentary Shorts

Reality Bites: Documentary Shorts

These nonfiction short films take up the task of witnessing and documenting reality, which is so often stranger than fiction. True stories and documentary gems populate this program.

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Vantage Points: Perspectives From Sapir College

Vantage Points: Perspectives From Sapir College

A collection of student shorts from Sapir College in southern Israel, a multicultural community near Gaza that was directly impacted by the attacks on October 7th.

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Center of Life

Center of Life

Wissam and his wife's dream of a better life for their daughters in Jerusalem becomes a nightmare when their citizenship application is rejected.

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The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day

Parents to a baby boy, a young gay Jewish couple must share they're not planning to circumcise the baby.

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Facing the Wall

Facing the Wall

On her first morning in an Israeli absorption center, Sureni does everything she can to shut out her new reality and pretend she never left Ethiopia.

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Greatest Star

Greatest Star

A joyous portrait of DJ and LGBTQ+ events organizer, Jo Gattenberg, and how Barbra Streisand has profoundly influenced her life.

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Herd

Herd

Working on her family’s ranch as they raise cattle for slaughter, 10-year-old Naama contemplates philosophical questions regarding life and death.

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In the Garden of Tulips

In the Garden of Tulips

Set amongst the backdrop of the Iran-Iraq war, Sharif and his fifteen year old daughter, Caroline take their last car ride together before her life is changed forever.

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Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo

Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo

A brief glimpse into the lives of the dwindling but passionate community of the Jews of Guantanamo.

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Layla

Layla

Layla’s hair is fed up with the silence and oppression she suffers, so one day it decides to disrupt her complacency.

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Maurice's Bar

Maurice's Bar

On a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

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MERV

MERV

Simon is unexpectedly summoned to his grandmother’s house to meet her new boyfriend, Merv. The man he encounters there upends his understanding of love, loss, and Chinese takeout.

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Out of Play

Out of Play

Bar is forced to earn back her spot on the class soccer team. As the day progresses she realizes that the real problem is off the field.

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Pickled Herring

Pickled Herring

After getting in an embarrassing accident, Irina must rely on her old world father’s care, but he uses the opportunity to pester her about her modern life.

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Public Defender

Public Defender

A liberal public defender representing January 6th rioters takes on America’s epidemic of division with humanity, restoring trust and accountability one conversation at a time.

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Puerto Rican Jew

Puerto Rican Jew

A Puerto Rican man finds out he is half Jewish after taking a DNA test.

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Sauna Dreams

Sauna Dreams

Dave Roffman, Sauna Athlete, is on a quest to win the 2023 World Sauna Championships in Detroit.

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Seaweed

Seaweed

In the south of Israel, a boy dealing with the loss of his mother, befriends a mysterious wanderer who lives in the desert.

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Shira Tama

Shira Tama

An observational coming-of-age film documenting Shira Tama, a 12-year-old girl living in the Amona settlement, who is fighting the battle of her life to save her home.

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The Speed Of The Distance Between Us

The Speed Of The Distance Between Us

Meditations on parenting and the moving distance of memory from parents who have lost a child.

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A Train to Cairo

A Train to Cairo

The Gaza / Cairo train reawakens. Hurry to catch a seat.

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We Should Eat

We Should Eat

When Agi gathers her family for a school identity project over dinner, they rethink who they are and what they want to eat.

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We've Been Here Before

We've Been Here Before

An intimate look at the non-conformists in punk subculture that fought back against white nationalists and neo-Nazis in the 90s.

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10-Flix Ticket Package

$140 JFI Members / $165 General Public

The 10-Flix Voucher Package may be redeemed for any 10 regular or special events tickets to any 10 programs of your choice, with the exception of Opening Night. Share with family and friends, fully transferable. Great for gifts! 10-Flix Vouchers cannot guarantee tickets to sold-out shows, so redeem early to ensure availability.

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