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Divine Food

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Diving In

Rachel and Yael share their first night together. But a problematic discovery could make it their last.

Dogs: The Rise and Fall Of An All-girl Bookie Joint

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Dorfman in Love

By all appearances, single 28-year-old accountant Deb Dorfman had embraced a life of suburban mediocrity. When a promise to house-sit for her long-time crush—a hunky war correspondent—uproots her from her sheltered San Fernando Valley home and thrusts her into the hub of a newly revitalized downtown LA, Deb’s world is poised to crack open. Transformation is inevitable, but is love? Elliot Gould co-stars in this delightfully quirky indie romantic comedy. [MINIGUIDE 70/70]

Double Happiness

After the death of her husband of fifty years, a life-affirming Jewish widow and the tightly-wound Chinese-American restaurateur who serves her family every Christmas find themselves drawn into an unexpected late-in-life romance.

Dough Nuts

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The Dr. John Haney Sessions

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The Driver Is Red

Secret agent Zvi Aharoni is hunting one of the highest ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.

Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie: SFJFF46 Audience Award

Winner of the SFJFF46 Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. From the dust storms of Oklahoma to the lox and bagels of Coney Island, discover a whole new side of Woody Guthrie that will forever change your view of one of America’s most celebrated songwriters and cultural icons.

Local Spotlight: Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie

From the dust storms of Oklahoma to the lox and bagels of Coney Island, discover a whole new side of Woody Guthrie that will forever change your view of one of America’s most celebrated songwriters and cultural icons.

Dybbuks and Chicken Soup

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Earth Camp One

Earth Camp One tells the story of how the filmmaker lost five family members in a decade. We often want to break away from our families: what happens when they leave us?

Echo Soup

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Eclipse

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Ed & Pauline

Hollywood screenwriter Robert Riskin’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town won him a 1937 Oscar. Less well known is Riskin’s series of short films, produced to aid America’s WWII effort. The films’ American values reflect his own Jewish, left-leaning principles, countering foreigners’ negative stereotypes of United States citizens. With narration by John Lithgow, director Peter Miller skillfully brings this effort to light. Preceded by shorts Ed & Pauline and Autobiography of a Jeep.

Ein Stehaufmannchen

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Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

Oren Rudavsky’s poetic and powerful documentary, told in Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s own words, explores both the gift and the burden of being humanity’s witness.

Elijah

A group of young, sophisticated Jewish New Yorkers will have their ideals tested when an unexpected guest crashes their Passover Seder.

Ellis Island

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Emile Bokaer: We Play Cinema

We Play Cinema is a multi-generational documentary self-portrait by Emile Bokaer, created in collaboration with his father Tsvi Bokaer. Blending contemporary observational footage with Tsvi’s long-lost 1960s 16mm films, son and father place past and present in direct conversation, to illuminate the lasting truth: cinema is as essential as life itself.

Emma D. Miller: Father Figures

When a retired theater director begins posting deeply intimate conversations with his growing collection of ventriloquist’s dummies, his daughter embarks on a quest to understand his motivations and repair a fraught relationship — using puppets.

An Encounter with Simone Weil

Documentarian Julia Haslett turns her lens on French philosopher Simone Weil, one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, who was raised by a secular Jewish family and lived during the rise of Fascism in Europe. Haslett eloquently traces Weil’s intellectual identity as it shifted over time; Weil was a trade unionist, a Marxist, an anti-Stalinist, a pacifist, a fighter in the Spanish Civil War and a Christian-influenced mystic.

End Of Innocence: June 19th, 1953

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Enemies: A Love Story

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Escape From Suburbia

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Esther Broner - A Weave Of Women

Prolific writer, passionate activist, dedicated scholar and pioneering feminist, Esther Broner indelibly shaped modern Jewish history, and yet, most people have never heard of her. In the mid-1970s, Broner created a radical new Haggadah for a new era, one that shifted the focus onto women, transforming the Passover service into a powerful reclamation of women’s lives, and, as Lilly Rivlin’s inspiring portrait documents, would empower generations of Jewish women.

Eugene's Valet

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Eva Ilona Brzeski: Daughterland

A father attempts to hide his mysterious past for his whole life. His daughter spends 35 years trying to get him to share his secrets.

Eve (Natalie Portman short)

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Every Day The Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans

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Every Time We Say Goodbye

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Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists

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Everything I Own

As his parents prepare to divorce, filmmaker Andrew Garbus turns the camera on his family and himself, unearthing long buried trauma, unresolved guilt, and the elusive hope of healing over one agonizing, revelatory week.

Eyes Wide Open

What does Israel mean to American Jews today? Veteran filmmaker Paula Weiman-Kelman looks beyond Israel’s ubiquitous bus tours to explore the complex relationship between the American Jewish community and the 60-year-old Jewish state.

Ezekiel's Wheels

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The F Word

Nicole Opper (JFI Filmmaker in Residence) and her partner Kristan are an Oakland-based queer couple who want to adopt a kid. This comedic doc web series chronicles their journey into the foster care system to become fost-adopt parents. They bumble through a bizarre and bureaucratic maze in order to learn everything they can about the troubled institution on which they are staking their dreams of parenthood. Screens with The Guys Next Door

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