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Drawing on Louis Armstrong’s audio diaries, documentarian Sacha Jenkins revisits the music and reappraises the politics of the legendary jazz trumpeter and singer.
Through first-person accounts and searing archival footage, "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power" tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.
JFI will host a screening of WRESTLING JERUSALEM followed by an onstage, live-streamed conversation with creator Aaron Davidman and KQED’s Michael Krasny. Tickets are available for the in-theater screening or tune in for free online at ovee.itvs.org
JFI presents a panel discussion on issues of race and identity in film raised by Joel Katz’s personal documentary White: A Memoir in Color. RSVP now to receive a code to watch the film for free and join us for the live-streamed panel or be a part of the San Francisco theater audience!
You have minutes to flee your home. What do you take with you? Refugee storytellers explore their prized possessions in short films about narrow escapes and expansive dreams. The Jewish Film Institute convenes Jewish, Muslim and LGBT refugees for a live-streamed multimedia presentation.
Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick records calls with her brother in recovery from heroin addiction to create an experimental rotoscoped film that crosses between past and present.
EDDY’S WORLD tells the entertaining story of Eddy Goldfarb, a 98-year-old working toy inventor, best known for the iconic Yakity Yak Teeth and nearly 800 classic toys. He designed his first toys while on submarine duty during WWII, launching his 80 year career as an independent toy inventor.
Using rare archival and recent interview footage, Alliata documents the experience of a young Norwegian boy taken by the Nazis and forced to live in a Lebensborn orphanage designed to enhance the Aryan race.
For 50 years a family archive sat in the dark, until Rotem persuaded her mother Varda to watch her childhood anew. 8mm films were discovered as documentation of an amateur filmmaker, Varda's mother, who documented her life in Tel Aviv in the late 1960s. The films shed light on past memories mixed with the present and of mother-daughter relationships.
Joza’s humble appearance does not reveal his wild past. Now a tour guide in Jerusalem, once Israel's biggest cocaine dealer - he’s been constantly reinventing himself while making all the possible mistakes along the way.