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New JFI fellowship for teens into films and changing the world
J Jewish News of Northern California | March 19, 2021
Our Pandemic Year: Artists faced a choice — pivot or perish
J Jewish News of Northern California | March 15, 2021
Now Playing! Blues for Billie, Lawrence, and Tiny Tim (WinterFest)
KQED | February 24th, 2021
WinterFest brings new Jewish cinema home for a long weekend
J News of Northern California | February 19, 2021
A Doctor (and Doc-Short Filmmaker) Explains How COVID Created Solutions for Patients and Producers
Hollywood Reporter | January 10, 2021
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: 40th Anniversary Hanukkah Celebration
Arts Intel Report (AIRmail) | December 15, 2020
Now Playing! Festivals Go Out with a Bang and a Boo!
KQED | December 10, 2020
What to do this Weekend: Dec. 10-13
Nob Hill Gazette | December 9, 2020
Jewish Film Institute marks 40th anniversary with 8 nights of films for Hanukkah
J News | November 27, 2020
Buzzworthy Partnerships in THE FORWARD's 2019 Annual Report
The Forward | August 2020
Art's Desire & Hot Tech Cool Science (ft. Abby Ginzberg and Judith Helfand)
KWMR | July 14, 2020
6 movies to catch during Cinegogue Summer Days
SF Chronicle Datebook | July 14, 2020
Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee saluted with screening at Jewish film festival
SF Chronicle Datebook | July 15, 2020
Now Playing! A Barbara Lee Doc at the Drive-In and Other Inspiring Tales
KQED Arts | July 14, 2020
Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’
48 Hills | July 14, 2020
Pass the Remote: Film on Rep. Barbara Lee kicks off fest
Local News Matters | July 14, 2020
Music of Cinegogue Summer Days, COVID-19 Edition of the SF Jewish Film Festival
SF Classical Voice | July 14, 2020
Special screening of documentary on Congresswoman Barbara Lee at Concord drive-in
Kron 4 | July 13, 2020
Barbara Lee documentary kicks off SF Jewish Film Fest summer series
San Jose Mercury News | July 14, 2020
Film About Method Acting Pioneer Among Jewish Film Institute Grant Recipients
Variety | July 13, 2020
REVIEWS FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL’S CINEGOGUE SUMMER DAYS
BeyondChron | July 14, 2020
KPFA 94.1 ft. Jay Rosenblatt
Talkies | July 9, 2020
Wanda's Picks Radio Show ft. Lexi Leban, Abby Ginzberg, and Brad Rothschild
Wanda Sabir | July 8, 2020
S.F. Jewish Film Festival revs up at the drive-in (and on your couch)
J News of Northern California | July 6, 2020
Cinegogue Summer Days: The pandemic version of the SF Jewish Film Festival
Bayflicks | July 6, 2020
In 'Picture of His Life', Wildlife Photographer Swims With Polar Bears
SF Chronicle Datebook | June 18, 2020
‘Lady Liberty’: Jewish Film Institute has Pride in livestream of funny TV pilot
J News | June 15, 2020
Film Academy Allocates $2.5 Million in Grants to 96 Organizations
Variety | May 12, 2020
Federation issue $2.4 million in second wave of emergency grants.
J News | May 8, 2020
Now Playing! April Dates Inspire Spring Streaming
KQED Arts | April 21, 2020
SF Jewish, Napa Valley film festivals fall victim to coronavirus
Datebook, SF Chronicle | April 21, 2020
40th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Postponed
J News | April 16, 2020
Prestigious NEH grant for local film on teen’s Holocaust diary
J News | April 14, 2020
Now Playing! Reality Rules at Jewish Film Institute’s WinterFest
J News | February 24, 2020
George Soros: Philanthropist? Financier? Evil genius? New film tells the full story
J News | February 24th, 2020
A master of synagogue music finds his style and career fading in touching documentary
J News | February 14, 2020
Big issues and controversial personalities star in S.F. Jewish film fest’s WinterFest
J News | February 11, 2020
Sundance 2020: The Ultimate Party Guide
Variety | January 23, 2020
What to look for at Sundance 2020
Jewish Insider | January 24, 2020
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Pass The Remote: An Edgy Yosemite-Set Comedy, A Heady Experimental Drama And More S.F. Jewish Film Fest
SF Gate | July 27, 2021
Now Playing! SF Jewish Film Festival Hails Heroines and Villains
KQED | July 22, 2021
41st SF Jewish film fest screens at Castro and online - Dozens of movies from around the world reflect varied experiences, views
San Francisco Examiner | July 21, 2021
What to expect from this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
SF Chronicle Datebook | July 21, 2021
SF Jewish Film Fest returns, as timely as ever
The Mercury News | July 20, 2021
Marin Alsop Documentary a “Centerpiece” of SF Jewish Film Festival
SF Classical Voice | July 19, 2021
Review: Palestinian father knows best in ‘200 Meters’ … or does he?
Michael Fox | July 16, 2021
Hot Summer Reads and the Jewish Film Festival
Bay Area Reporter | July 15, 2021
‘Prognosis’: S.F. documentarian turns camera on herself as she battles cancer
J News | July 12, 2021
THE GREAT STUFF COMING TO THE 41ST S.F. JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Broke Ass Stuart | July 12, 2021
The 2021 SF Jewish Film Festival
Bayflicks | July 7, 2021
Avant-garde film says ‘Kaddish for Bernie Madoff,’ in its own eccentric way
J Jewish News | July 6, 2021
S.F. Jewish film fest roars back into Castro — and online, too
J Jewish News | July 2, 2021
Madoff musical, Holocaust revenge and Saul Bellow at 2021 S.F. Jewish Film Festival
J Jewish News | June 24, 2021
S.F. Jewish Film Festival announces slate of films to screen virtually and live at the Castro
SF Chronicle Datebook | June 28, 2021
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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 39, Week 2
SFWeekly | July 24, 2019
The SF Jewish Film Festival moves to the Smith Rafael film center on Friday - beautiful, small, dramatic stories
ARThound | July 30, 2019
My Ex-City
Nina Paley | July 24, 2019
Pauline Kael Leads the People of the Screen at SFJFF
Oakland Magazine | July 24, 2019
Fiddling through a difficult history
Bay Area Reporter | July 23, 2019
In it's 39th year, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival toasts and emphatic l'chaim
The Daily Californian | August 1, 2019
Now Playing! The Distance Between 1930's and Present Collapses at S.F. Jewish Film Festival
KQED Arts | July 18, 2019
Run, do not walk, to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
IndiePlex | July 15, 2019
Comedies and docs, fiddlers and polar bears: 2019 S.F. Jewish Fest ready to roll out the red carpet
J. The Jewish News | July 10, 2019
This years' San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Bayflicks | July 8, 2019
Fiddler Opens 39th SF Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco Classical Voice | July 6, 2019
KPFA Talkies
KPFA | June 19, 2019
Trans Doc Screens at 'WinterFest'
Bay Area Reporter | February 12, 2019
Family, journalism, Peter Sellers, and more on film at WinterFest
J. Weekly | February 12, 2019
Reel local news: SF Jewish Film Institute jump-starts 2019 with Winterfest
SF Chronicle Datebook | January 22, 2019
SF Jewish film fest honors documentarian Liz Garbus
San Francisco Chronicle | July 19, 2018
Reviews from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Beyond Chron | July 19, 2018
LGBTQ lives explored in SFJFF38
Bay Area Reporter | July 19, 2018
Feminist filmmakers featured at SFJFF
Bay Area Reporter | July 19, 2018
Restored 1924 Austrian satire eerily foreshadows Jewish fate
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | July 19, 2018
SF Jewish Film Fest: Here are 5 top picks from impressive lineup
Mercury News | July 16, 2018
SFJFF38 Spotlights #1: Budapest Noir, Memoir Of War, Murer-Anatomy Of A Murder, The Interpreter, Promise At Dawn
Spinning Platters | July 16, 2018
Now Playing! S.F. Jewish Film Festival Drills Down to the Roots
KQED | July 16, 2018
The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto as Told by the Jews, Not the Nazis
Haaretz | July 5, 2018
The secret society who documented truth of the Warsaw Ghetto
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | July 13, 2018
Banksy in the West Bank: Whose art is it anyway?
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | July 13, 2018
'Interpreter' evokes war angst in past and present Europe
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | July 16, 2018
Diverse views in 38th SF Jewish film fest
San Francisco Examiner | July 15, 2018
The facets of Sammy Davis Jr. in 'I've Gotta Be Me' at SF Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco Chronicle | July 12, 2018
Jewish Film Festival's unflinching looks at Austria's past, Kurt Waldheim
San Francisco Chronicle | July 12, 2018
Bay Area filmmaker's short at SF Jewish Fest inspired by Jerusalem graffiti
San Francisco Chronicle | July 12, 2018
Gilda Radner documentary opens global and complex SF Jewish Film Fest
San Francisco Chronicle | July 12, 2018
Global zeitgeists on screen at 38th SF Jewish Film Festival
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | July 12, 2018
7 must-see films at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
TimeOut San Francisco | June 28, 2018
Film Fest Explores Varied Facets of Jewish Life
SF Arts Monthly | June 22, 2018
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival opens July 19
Bay Flicks | June 20, 2018
SF Jewish Film Festival announces lineup
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | June 20, 2018
Sammy Davis Jr. and Gilda Radner top the marquee at Jewish Film Fest
San Francisco Chronicle & SFGate | June 19, 2018
First, S.F. Jewish Film Fest, next, the Oscars?
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | April 3, 2018
San Francisco film festival groups learn to live together as building owners
San Francisco Chronicle | Jesse Hamlin | March 16, 2018
Ten films to see at Jewish Film Institute's WinterFest
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | J. Staff | February 1, 2018
SF Jewish Film Institute makes tribute for Martin Landau a mission possible
San Francisco Chronicle | Michael Ordoña | January 26, 2018
More February Film Festivals
Bay Flicks | Lincoln Spector | January 16, 2018
Marc Smolowitz & Ben Berkowitz named as Filmmakers in Residence
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | Rob Gloster | January 11, 2018
Dad's 1946 letters expose startling secret in 'Letter from Cloudcroft'
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | Rob Gloster | December 27, 2017
Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr put her brains before her beauty
San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann | July 24, 2017
Deep memories of an 'underground' man in Buenos Aires animate late-in-life saga
J the Jewish News of Northern California | Michael Fox | July 20, 2017
Winner takes all in Israeli political mockumentary 'The 90 Minute War'
J the Jewish News of Northern California | Sue Fishkoff | July 21, 2017
In 'Heather Booth,' one great female Jewish activist films another
Times of Israel | Elissa Einhorn | July 20, 2017
SF Jewish film fest focus: finding common ground
SF Examiner | James Ambroff-Tahan | July 20, 2017
FILM ON ACTIVIST HEATHER BOOTH AMONG HIGHLIGHTS OF 37TH SF JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Beyond Chron | Peter Wong | July 20, 2017
Hebrew's cool
The Bay Area Reporter | David Lamble | July 20, 2017
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 37, Week 1
SF Weekly | Sherilyn Connelly | July 19, 2017
SF Jewish Film Fest: Don't miss these 10 films
The Mercury News | Randy Myers | July 19, 2017
Tiny woman with a huge personality will win you over in Jewish film fest doc
J the Jewish News of Northern California | Elissa Einhorn | July 17, 2017
Midrash on film: Biblical drama unfolds as modern heartbreak
J the Jewish News of Northern California | David A.M. Wilensky | July 17, 2017
Al Gore, Hedy Lamarr, Joe Berlinger, Karl Marx, and a slew of new features light up the screens at the 37th SF Jewish Film Fest
48 Hills | Dennis Harvey | July 18, 2017
BEN-GURION, EPILOGUE: in his own words, Israel's founding leader reflects
The Movie Gourmet | Scott Strickland | July 11, 2017
LEVINSKY PARK: refuge for refugees?
The Movie Gourmet | Scott Strickland | July 11, 2017
A CLASSY BROAD: "Done. Next!"
The Movie Gourmet | Scott Strickland | July 11, 2017
SUBTE-POLSKA: memory, vitality and loves from the past
The Movie Gourmet | Scott Strickland | July 11, 2017
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: Al Gore in person, plus Hedy Lamarr!
The Movie Gourmet | Scott Strickland | July 11, 2017
Interview with Jay Rosenblatt & Director Robert Philipson - Body and Soul: An American Bridge
Wanda's Picks Radio Show | July 12, 2017
Queer Drama In Between Is a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Highlight
SF Bay Times | Gary M. Kramer | July 17, 2017
Now Playing! Smorgasbord of Self-Discovery at S.F. Jewish Film Festival
KQED Arts | Michael Fox | July 17, 2017
Romantic comedy heralds 'Change' through autistic lovers
J the Jewish News of Northern California | Michael Fox | July 14, 2017
S.F. Jewish Film Fest packs Karl Marx, Al Gore, Heddy Lamarr and more into 17 days
J the Jewish News of Northern California | Liz Harris | July 13, 2017
For directing team, phone call came at convenient time
San Francisco Chronicle | David Lewis | July 12, 2017
Jewish film fest honors doc filmmaker Joe Berlinger
San Francisco Chronicle | David Lewis | July 12, 2017
An insider's tour of the SF Jewish film fest
San Francisco Chronicle | David Lewis | July 12, 2017
S.F. Jewish film fest strives to offer therapy for community
San Francisco Chronicle | David Lewis | July 12, 2017
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: Al Gore in person, plus Hedy Lamarr!
The Movie Gourmet | Scott Strickland | July 11, 2017
Al Gore will speak at S.F. screening of 'Inconvenient Truth' follow-up film
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | Staff | June 29, 2017
This year's Jewish Film Fest deals with refugees, music, romance, and yes, genocide
Bayflicks | Lincoln Spector | June 27, 2017
Jewish Film Fest Announces Lineup
San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle | June 21, 2017
Ambitious South Korean Actioner 'The Villainess' Just Might Be This Year's 'Train to Busan' - Film Festival Roundup
IndieWire | Kate Erbland | June 8, 2017
S.F. Jewish Film Fest will highlight women directors on opening, closing nights
J. the Jewish News of Northern California | Max A. Cherney | June 7, 2017