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The Gatekeepers

The Gatekeepers directed by Dror Moreh features unprecedented testimony by six men who oversaw Israel's internal-security intelligence operation from 1980-2011. The film was groundbreaking for its incredible access to the leaders of Shin Bet who speak openly about closely held state secrets.

A Gaza Weekend (East Bay Big Night)

In this hilarious, action-packed parody that lampoons disaster movies, when a mysterious virus spreads throughout Israel, a wealthy British journalist, and his Israeli girlfriend become desperate to escape the country.

Gdanski Railway Station

Two films about the little-known anti-Semitic hysteria that gripped Poland in 1967 and ’68, when political unrest resulted in the expulsion of some 20,000 Polish Jews: In Lake 68, expelled families return each summer to the lake in Poland where they once took refuge; in Gdanski Railway Station, join the poignant reunion of some of the assimilated Polish Jewish citizens who were forced out of their homes, jobs and universities and exiled to Israel.

Gefilte

Each year, the Hermelin family of Detroit come together to celebrate Passover (pesach) - honoring the liberation of the Jews from slavery in ancient Egypt - by eating Gefilte fish, the meal that stars in New York-born director Rachel Fleit's new film. While simple on the surface, gefilte is filled with history and meaning (just like the recipe itself, which includes a stuffing of fish, salt, vegetables and egg). However, "the dish of gefilte isn't about the fish," says the Brooklyn-based writer and director. Instead, "it becomes a lightening rod, in which we project all of our feelings about family, identity, tradition, struggle, loss - and as always, love.""

Gefilte Fish

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Gefilte Fish and the Ghost of Germany: Jewish American Artists in the New Berlin

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Georgian sisters Maya and Manana express their love for Georgia in Israel through their strongest talents: music and dance. Georgia My Love chronicles their journey to prepare for a performance, supported by their lovable Georgian mama

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

With an unflinching eye, combat cameramen documented German atrocities as troops liberated the concentration camps. This was to be the definitive film screened in Germany after the war, but by the time the film was ready, there had been a change in Anglo-German relations and it was shelved. Alfred Hitchcock advised on the most effective methods of editing the harrowing sequences together. No one under 18 will be admitted.

A German Life

From 1942 until the end of the war, Brunhilde Pomsel worked as a stenographer for Joseph Goebbels, the infamous Nazi minister of propaganda. Now 105 years old, she is the last living witness to have seen the machinations of Nazi power from the inside. With her face in close-up, she recounts her past with lucidity and forces us to ask the timely question, “What would I have done in this situation?” —Jay Rosenblatt

German Shepherd

Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 documentary Shoah is arguably one of the greatest documentaries of all time. Lanzmann discusses at length the making of his masterwork, including the secret filming of former Nazis, the lengthy process of convincing traumatized Holocaust survivors to open up on camera; and the exhausting challenge of chronicling one of the greatest atrocities in history. Screening with the shorts Ischler, Zement, and German Shepherd.

Germans and Jews

This thoughtful documentary is a subtle examination of the history of Germany’s postwar Jewish population and of the fraught and fragile relations between Jews and non-Jews. Structured around a dinner party attended by Germans and Jews—some of whom were born in Germany, some who are “Germans by choice”—the film negotiates sensitive questions of memory, guilt, identity and redemption with grace and aplomb while giving access to both sides of a crucial historical dialogue. —Seth Barron*SJM: Single Jewish Mom Free Screening

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This Sundance award-winning documentary confronts the legacy of the landmark US Supreme Court decision in Gideon vs. Wainwright, which established the right to legal representation for indigent clients in criminal cases. Filmmaker Dawn Porter tracks three understaffed and underfunded public defenders in the South as they struggle to represent their clients. Gideon's Army shines a much deserved light on these unsung civil rights heroes of our times.

The Gift to Stalin

In 1949, Soviet deportees creep eastward into oblivion. For Sasha, a Jewish boy, salvation comes through an astonishing rubric of chance, defiance and the love of a Muslim railroad worker who becomes his adopted grandfather. Joining a makeshift family of political outcasts, Sasha has a chance to win his parents’ freedom when Moscow announces a children’s contest celebrating Stalin’s 70th birthday. This beautiful and sweeping allegorical tale asks, “Whose flock are you from?”

The Gil and Moti Wedding Project

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Gilad Shalit: 2 Years in Captivity

On July 12, 2006, IDF soldier Ehud Goldwasser was kidnapped by Hezbollah, an event that triggered the second Lebanon war. This is the story of the families left behind and their struggle to bring their loved ones home, told with the deft hand and keen eye of documentarian Nurit Kedar (Wasted, SFJFF 2007). In Gilad Shalit, Aviva and Noam Shalit campaign to free their son Gilad, captured by Gazan militants in June 2006.

Gilbert

If you think you know Gilbert Gottfried, the brash, shrill-voiced (“Aflac!”), boundary-pushing comic, think again. In this surprisingly candid documentary portrait, director Neil Berkeley reveals the foul-mouthed comedian in a whole new light as a loving husband and father of two young children. Featuring interviews with comics like Whoopi Goldberg and behind-the-scenes glimpses of Gottfried’s performances, Gilbert separates the man from the act, and what emerges is unexpectedly tender.

Gimme A Kiss

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Gimpel the Fool

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The Giraffe [Meschugge]

A sexy, taut thriller by SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award winner Dani Levy. An elderly Jewish woman is found dead in the corridor of a New York hotel. Her son, David (played by Levy), meets a young set designer, Lena Katz (Maria Schrader), who appears to be involved in the mysterious death. As their attraction grows, so do suspicions that will link two generations of their families to events that happened long ago in Germany.

Girl Dad

A guarded teenager leaves Brooklyn for the first time to spend the summer with her estranged father, a struggling composer in Los Angeles. What starts as an awkward reunion turns into something deeper, forcing them to confront old wounds and rebuild what they’ve lost.

The Girl from A Reading Primer

An archival image-infused animated portrait of Alina Margolis-Edelman, who as a child met the author of the most popular Polish reading primer and afterward appeared as one of the main characters in the book. After attending nursing school—an unusual place in the Warsaw Ghetto—Alina married a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They later immigrated to France and joined Doctors Without Borders, helping to save the lives of children worldwide.

Girlfriends

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Give Me Liberty

When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.

Given Names

Thirteen people tell their stories through their first names. Their answers blend personal histories with broader historical events. Although each story (and name) is unique, they resonate with one another, creating unexpected connections.

Glickman

Marty Glickman was an inspiration to millions. Featuring interviews with Bob Costas, Bill Bradley and Marv Albert, this documentary brilliantly captures Glickman’s life as an athlete, a pioneering sports broadcaster (he coined the term “swish”), and as a passionate advocate of sports as a means of transcending divisions created by race, class and religion. If you loved The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, this movie is for you. [MINIGUIDE 69/70]

The Glory of Life

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life became his happiest. The worldly Dora Diamant accepts him as he is. And he accepts her.

The Glow

Former general Uri and his pretty, young girlfriend Mona leave the city to enjoy a quiet weekend visiting old friends. When their cell phones go dead and the radio emits eerie sounds, Uri is annoyed, but Mona senses that something unusual is happening. Unexplained events multiply, including an elusive glowing light and two black-robed men, who may or may not be aliens.

Go for Zucker! - An Unorthodox Comedy

Jaeckie Zucker, a hard-drinking, pool-playing, lovable scoundrel in Berlin, is up to his ears in debt. When he learns that his long-estranged mother has willed him a sizeable inheritance, he thinks his ship has come in. But there’s a catch: Jaeckie--who gave up all things Jewish long ago--must first reconcile with his Orthodox Jewish brother, who is coming, family in tow, for the funeral. The madcap adventure that follows finds Jaeckie desperately trying to "pass" as observant, while trying to ditch the funeral so he can play in a high-stakes pool tournament.Politically incorrect, ironic and utterly contemporary, what makes Go for Zucker! such a standout is that, while in the irreverent mode of Mel Brooks and Larry David, this is a comedy from Germany--daring to present Jews in a guilt-free context beyond the Holocaust. Berlin-based writer/director Dani Levy has created a screwball comedy that breaks every taboo.

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

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