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Apply Now: 2025 Completion Grants

Applications for the 2025 JFI Completion Grants are open from January 10 through February 21, 2025.


San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 45

The countdown is on to the event of the summer! From July 17 – August 3, experience the magic of the 45th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, presented by the Jewish Film Institute, in theaters across San Francisco and the East Bay.


Steal This Story, Please!

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from conflict zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. In Steal This Story, Please!, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.


Pitch + Kvell 2025

At this free online event, JFI's 2025 Filmmakers in Residence will present excerpts from their documentary works-in-progress as they pitch their projects to a panel of prominent film industry insiders for feedback on getting across the finish line.


2026 Filmmaker Residency Application Information Session

Applications for the 2026 JFI Filmmaker in Residence program are open September 5 – October 20, 2025. Marcia Jarmel, JFI's Director of Filmmaker Services, is hosting information sessions for applicants via Zoom on select dates and times.


A Tree of Life

A shofar blower, a gun shop housed in a former synagogue, and eleven hundred mitzvahs weave this intimate tapestry of a community rebuilding after eleven people are brutally murdered inside their synagogue for being Jewish.


The Automat

The story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served New Yorkers and Philadelphians for over a century. Features interviews with loyal customers Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Colin Powell, and Carl Reiner.


Cinema Sabaya

Nine women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by a young film director, who teaches them how to document their lives. Group dynamics force them to challenge their views and beliefs as they get to know each other.


Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen

Marking the 50th anniversary of the legendary movie musical, this is an intimate portrait of director Norman Jewison and the making of Fiddler on the Roof. Narrated by Jeff Goldblum. (Closing Night Film)


The Fourth Window

Following his death in 2018, the film unveils the double tragedies in the life of the Israeli writer, Amos Oz. A sensitive portrait of darkness, peace, trauma and stardom.