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Love Machina

Commissioned by futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt, the humanoid robot Bina48 explores the potential to preserve both their digital consciousness and eternal love.

Love of Life

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Love, Antosha

Prolific young actor Anton Yelchin was wise beyond his years and influenced everyone around him to strive for more. Love, Antosha tells the story of Yelchin's creative persistence. His devoted Russian parents nurtured his love of acting, exposing him to works of the masters. Filming himself became a tool for his transformation; reflecting on his own performance, he pushed himself to find depth in every role. Often the youngest actor on set, Yelchin's intense focus inspired many actors around him - Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pine, and John Cho share revealing insights into his character. Though he kept it a secret, Yelchin lived with a dangerous health condition, but he never became discouraged. As he grew into his craft, he continually enriched his understanding of the world, embodying an incredible authenticity. As a vivid part of the Sundance Film Festival community, Yelchin premiered in numerous independent features at the Festival: Alpha Dog (2006), Like Crazy (Grand Jury Prize in 2011), and Thoroughbreds (2017). Filmmaker Garret Price crafts a heartwarming and profound coming-of-age story of a singular young artist taken from us too early.

Love, Gilda

Rare personal recordings, hilarious clips and heartfelt interviews comprise this endearing tribute to a comedy icon.

Lovers in Minsk: The Jewess and the Captain

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Loving the Dead

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Lyd

Lyd is a sci-fi documentary about the city that "connected Palestine to the world" – exploring its history of expulsion and imagining a shared alternative future.

Ma'aleh 20th anniversary [program]

Ma’aleh Film School 20th AnniversaryThe Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts is the only film school of its kind in the world. SFJFF celebrates 20 years of the Jerusalem-based academy, which trains filmmakers to produce work inspired by their Jewish heritage, fostering a unique connection between the world of media and Jewish culture. Four top-notch short films will be presented. The school’s director, Neta Ariel, will be at the Castro screening.

Mabul (The Flood)

On a tumbledown farm on Israel’s coast, the Rosko family struggles to keep up appearances while hiding their sins, small and large. Teacher Miri is having an affair; husband Gidi is surreptitiously unemployed; and late-blooming son Yoni pacifies class bullies with completed homework. When his autistic brother suddenly rejoins the household, tensions mount, secrets emerge and Yoni’s bar mitzvah reading—about Noah and the flood—gets deeper, in this exquisite drama nominated for six Israeli Academy Awards.

The Mad Dog of Europe

This film uncovers the little-known story of how Herman J. Mankiewicz’s film project—warning of the dangers of Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s—was thwarted by censorship and Nazi influence within the Hollywood system.

Madame Jacques sur la Croisette

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Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10

Some seventy years ago, gynecologist Dr Carl Clauberg conducted sterilization experiments in Auschwitz on women and girls.Were German companies Schering and Siemens involved in these crimes? Most of the few women that survived became sterile, only some could later still bear children. Clauberg's cruel research on birth control and infertility is part of the medical canon to this day.

Madrasa (Episodic Spotlight)

From the pen of politically astute Palestinian Israeli writer Sayed Kashua (Arab Labor, The Writer) comes Madrasa, a fast-paced comic TV series set at the Peace School for Bilingual Education in Jerusalem.

The Maelstrom

Found-footage master Peter Forgacs makes extraordinary use of home movies shot in the Netherlands before and during World War II to tell the story of the Peereboom family. Even as they celebrate weddings, holidays and intimate family moments, our knowledge of their fate casts a devastating shadow.

Magic Hour

Erin and Charlie escape to the desert to navigate a challenging and unexpected new phase of their relationship. Screens with the Freedom of Expression Award presentation to Daveed Diggs.

Magic Men

In this poignant comedy, an Israeli father and son are forced to confront their painful estrangement over their beliefs. The aging father is an atheist, his middle-aged son a Hasidic rapper. Thrown together on a road trip to Greece, they argue their way along the Adriatic, treating viewers to some stunning scenery. As their quixotic adventure unfolds, it is the actors’ understated performances that give the film its real magic.

Mah-Jongg: The Tiles That Bind

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Mahmoud Darwich: The Land as Language

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Maidan, Nave of the World

Maidan, Nave of the World is a painterly portrait of the careworn streets and alleys of Tbilisi, Georgia, city of multiple faiths.

Maintenance Artist

Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 1969 manifesto declaring her acts of household maintenance as performance art launched a lifelong, revolutionary collaboration with the maintenance workers of museums, galleries, and cities.

Making Morning Star

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Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

What is it that makes funny Jewish women so funny…and so Jewish? Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women is a laugh-out-loud, impeccably researched documentary that explores six legendary American Jewish women comics. Director Rachel Talbot has created a tribute to Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein and Gilda Radner, whose comedy defied cultural expectations and changed the rules. Get ready to duck when the zingers fly and guffaw at this humor-filled, insightful documentary. Our wacky guides on this comedic journey are four of today’s leading Jewish comedians: Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney and Jessica Kirson.

Malena Barrios: Call Me Lucky

Marc is the protagonist of the 8mm family films shot for over twenty years by his father Henry, a successful Holocaust survivor obsessed with filming happy moments.

Malou

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Mama, L'Chaim! (To Life!)

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Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema

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Mamboniks, The | Song and Dance

Bagels meet bongos in ""The Mamboniks,"" a feature-length documentary that tells the little-known story of the Jewish love affair with Latin music and dance. Set in New York, Havana, Miami Beach and the Catskill Mountains, this fun, uplifting film features a lovable, somewhat zany collection of dancers from the 1950s. Now retired yet still dancing, they share their passion for the mambo, the hot dance from Cuba that became a world-wide sensation. With an infectious soundtrack including Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and mambo king Pérez Prado, this film explores a mostly unexamined aspect of Jewish life and culture.

Mamele

Molly Picon, barely five feet tall but a giant of the Yiddish stage and screen, owns the title role of the put-upon “little mother” who plays Cinderella to an ungrateful family that would do Fassbinder proud. A sparkling mix of humor, song and pathos, Mamele, in a restoration honoring the film’s 75th anniversary, is fascinating for its portrayal of gender roles and Jewish life in Poland between the wars.

Man is Woman

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Man of Ashes

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The Man Who Shot Hollywood

Few have heard of Jack Pashkovsky. This unassuming Russian Jewish émigré parlayed his love for movies into becoming the self-appointed, unpaid chronicler of Hollywood royalty during the 1930s and ’40s with his relaxed, un-glam portraits. Before there were paparazzi, let alone Instagram and selfie sticks, there was Pashkovsky. —Mark Valentine

The Man Who Stole Banksy

NEXT WAVE SPOTLIGHT: A Palestinian taxi driver removes Banksy artwork from the West Bank separation wall to sell it on eBay.

Man Without a Cell Phone

Preceded by SivanMan Without a Cell Phone is a rarity: a funny, lighthearted film about Israeli-Palestinian relations. An Israeli telecom company erects a phone tower in an Arab village. Salem, a farmer, organizes a grassroots protest—Yes to Olives. No to Radiation!—while his son, Jawdat, a handsome dreamer depends on his cell phone to juggle multiple romantic prospects. Director Sameh Zoabi’s feature debut moves along jauntily and boasts charming performances. [MINIGUIDE 68/70]

The Man Without a World

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Manhood

MANHOOD is a darkly funny, compelling family drama that probes the depths of masculinity. Starring Nestor Carbonell, John Ritter and Janeane Garofolo, the film asks: What does it mean to be a father? How do men show love for their sons? MANHOOD is a brilliant look at the intersection of sex, love, and family, and how they shape a man's life.

Manpower

With restraint, compassion and grace, young Israeli director Noam Kaplan crafts a portrait of four men struggling to maintain their dignity. As the film’s disparate storylines snake together and apart, the remarkable cast delivers dazzling performances full of sparkling humor and quiet heartbreak. Rooted in a gentle but resolute humanism, Manpower deals with painful realities of 21st century life in Israel and beyond: socioeconomic disparity, xenophobia and the erosion of community.

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