JFI Grants

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Through two years of devastating war and intense protest, the diverse cast and crew of Tel Aviv's Opera persists, their art and individual stories reflecting a society torn between hope and despair, creation and destruction.

Our Home is Not of This World

Our Home is Not of This World

Our Home Is Not Of This World follows the invisible work of a medical examiner’s office in Texas that identifies people who die crossing the border, revealing its profound personal, legal and spiritual significance. Dr. Corinne Stern has been doing this vital work for more than 20 years and is now looking to retire, but the county government can’t seem to find anyone willing to replace her.

With the outbreak of a new war in Israel, a soldier is about to enter Lebanon. His mother refuses to wait for bad news and decides to take matters into her own hands.

A Photographic Memory

A Photographic Memory

A daughter attempts to piece together a portrait of her mother, an avant-garde journalist and a woman she never knew. Uncovering the vast archive Sheila Turner-Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, and Lisette Model, the film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold.

Postmortem, a hybrid documentary film and theater project, is a boundary-pushing crime drama about an abused girl who didn’t tell her childhood secret—and the woman she becomes—who does.

In the midst of shocking family revelations, a young filmmaker is diagnosed with terminal cancer. What follows is an intimate and darkly humorous journey of a family’s attempt to make sense of their upended past and disrupted future.

A Reel War: Shalal

A Reel War: Shalal

While digging in an Israeli archive, a film researcher stumbles across never-before-seen footage from a long-lost Palestinian Liberation Organization archive seized by Israel in the 1982 Lebanon war.

The brilliant David Strathairn gives a mesmerizing one-man performance as Jan Karski, a WWII Polish resistance fighter, whose testimony was emotionally given in Claude Lanzmann’s "Shoah."

The Return from the Other Planet

The Return from the Other Planet

Ka-Tsetnik established Israel’s perception of the Holocaust, coining the term “The Other Planet”. Following LSD treatment, during which he imagined himself as an SS officer, he abandoned the Other Planet.

Sabbath Queen joins director Sandi DuBowski and his rabbi, Amichai, on a lifelong and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion, ritual, and love for a challenging, rapidly changing twenty-first century.

Sons of Detroit

Sons of Detroit

The story of a family forged in 1970s Detroit. Two boys — one white, one black — raised as cousins. As the city teeters on the edge of economic collapse, the boys’ lives take radically different turns, each shaped by violence, opportunity, and race. Now, more than 20 years later, they each return to the city to reckon with the loss of home and family — and their roles in the destruction.

The Stamp Thief

The Stamp Thief

Part mystery story and part comedic heist, “The Stamp Thief” is the surprising tale of how Gary, a risk-averse father of four and an original “Seinfeld” writer/producer, drops everything, enlists the help of a team of adventurous friends and filmmakers, and flies halfway around the world to attempt to find and rescue a priceless stamp collections collection the Nazi stole from concentration camp victims, buried somewhere in Poland.

Steal This Story, Please!

Steal This Story, Please!

In an era of corporate news media consolidation, where divisive voices incite racial violence and entertainment trumps facts, Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! take us to the frontlines in the battle for truth and independence in journalism in this feature documentary.

Those Who Heard and Those Who Saw

Those Who Heard and Those Who Saw

In 1940, Jewish refugees who had fled to the United Kingdom were sent to work in prison camps in Canada. Through a large archive of never-released audio interviews, "Those Who Heard and Those Who Saw" considers how their experiences connect to those of contemporary Syrian refugees in Canada.

'Til Kingdom Come

'Til Kingdom Come

Pastors encourage an impoverished Kentucky community, “The forgotten people of America,” to donate to Israel in anticipation of Jesus’s impending return. The film exposes the controversial bond between Evangelicals and Jews in a story of faith, power, and money, revealing how Trump’s America is led by an End-Times apocalyptic countdown.

Toby Freilich: Maintenance Artist

What happens when high art meet trash? Watch this first feature documentary about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, globally-renowned artist-in-residence at NYC’s Sanitation Department. Religiously observant, Ukeles’ humanistic approach to Jewish tradition inspires her largely secular work.

Wednesdays In Mississippi

Wednesdays In Mississippi

Wednesdays in Mississippi is the little-known story of the first-ever all-women national civil rights program, whose multifaith Northern Black and White women citizen activist teams flew into deadly Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964, clandestinely supporting integration efforts, and local Black women’s leadership to seed community economic and educational empowerment.

Who Killed Alex Odeh?

Who Killed Alex Odeh?

The assassination of a beloved Palestinian-American activist in Southern California ignites a 40-year quest for justice, revealing the insidious roots of a dangerous political movement that thrives today.

An innovative, cinematic exploration of acting as a form of survival, through the life and work of Jack Garfein: Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio co-founder, and controversial stage and screen director. A journey of an enigmatic, censored artist, The Wild One explores the importance of his legacy and questions how art can draw on personal memory to better enlighten our present.

The Woman Who Didn't Know How to Love

The Woman Who Didn't Know How to Love

Varda never forgave her mother, Yehudit, for failing to love her. When her daughter Rotem discovers Yehudit’s hidden archive, she drags Varda into an unexpectedly funny, painfully honest three-generation conversation—insisting on a reconciliation only cinema can make possible.

Yoav Potash: Among Neighbors

Yoav Potash: Among Neighbors

In a town where history has been silenced, an eyewitness to murder speaks out in search of the boy she loved.

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