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My Life Part 2

Angelika Levi’s poetic film reveals the complicated life of her mother, Ursula, a woman of mixed Jewish/German heritage who survived Nazi rule. Recordings of her mother and interviews with her father create a powerful look at how information and myths are passed along in this portrait of a family whose story is both its own universe and a microcosm of European history.

My Life with Carlos

Filmmaker German Berger-Hertz’s personal journey back to Chile retraces the final days of his idealistic father, who was executed in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup. Now, four decades later, German returns to a democratic Chile to confront the past, following the path taken by Carlos in the last weeks of his life in this personal portrait of a son’s quest to understand not only his father, but his country.

My Memories are Entwined with You

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My Mexican Shivah

When Moishe Tartakovsky, exuberant patriarch of a Mexico City family, dies of a heart attack in the middle of a raucous mariachi party, he leaves behind a large and complicated web of secrets and relationships that must be untangled over the course of his seven-day shivah (Jewish wake). Vibrant characters and a terrific score by The Klezmatics turn this sly and charming dysfunctional-family drama into an affectionate, tearful party that's hard to leave.

My Mother's Courage

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My Name is Andrea

Decades before #MeToo, the controversial Jewish feminist writer and public intellectual, Andrea Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture with revolutionary and iconoclastic flair.

My Name Is Pauli Murray (Castro)

Acclaimed directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West follow the rousing success of their Academy Award nominated RBG with a new documentary based on the life of attorney, activist, priest, and memoirist Pauli Murray, who inspired Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

My Neighbor Adolf (Centerpiece Narrative)

Cranky and suspicious, a Holocaust survivor in South America, becomes convinced that his secretive German neighbor is Adolf Hitler and sets out to prove his case.

My Neighbourhood

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My Olympic Summer

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My Own Man

Why do some men exude an air of quiet confidence while others appear indecisive and uncertain? Filmmaker David Sampliner wants to know. He is about to become a father, and he’s worried that he’s not “man” enough to serve as his child’s guardian and protector. In My Own Man, Sampliner searches for the keys to becoming the man he wants to be by confronting his own past and embracing new challenges.

My Perestroika

This eye-opening documentary follows five ordinary Russians, including a Jewish teacher of history, a successful menswear merchant and a rebellious musician, as they live through extraordinary times: from a sheltered Soviet childhood to the collapse of the USSR and a brave new post-perestroika world. Using a wealth of footage rarely seen outside Russia, the film creates a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of individuals living through massive social change.

My Polish Honeymoon | Palo Alto Opening Night

Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time. They are just married and technically speaking this will be their honeymoon. They will attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam's grandfather, which was destroyed 75 years ago.

My Shortest Love Affair

SNEAK PREVIEWWriter/director/star Karin Albou (The Wedding Song, SFJFF 2009) tracks nine months in the lives of two Parisian fortysomethings who reunite after 20 years apart. Obsessed with the idea of getting things right the second time, the pregnant couple commits to compromise. Yet the only routine the two establish successfully is arguing. This is not a traditional ode to Paris as the city of love; rather, it is a darkly comic tribute to trying. Note: For mature audiences; contains nudity

My Sister, My Bride

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My So-Called Enemy

In July 2002, 22 Israeli and Palestinian teenage girls traveled to the United States to participate in a women’s leadership program called “Building Bridges for Peace.” They were Jewish, Muslim and Christian, and many had lost friends and family in the conflict. My So Called Enemy follows six of these young women to reveal how the experience complicated their lives and attitudes over the next seven years.

My Son, The Hero

Ulmer’s 1943 My Son, the Hero is a delightful slapstick farce that showcases boxer “Slapsie” Maxie Rosenbloom’s acting talent as well as the zany and enchanting comedic performances of Roscoe Karns and the great Patsy Kelly. Karns plays Big Time, a con man who pretends to be wealthy during his war hero son’s furlough. Preceded by Max Baer’s Last Right Hook, a boxing history film with a twist.

My Underground Mother

New York journalist Marisa Fox's search for her late mother’s hidden identity leads her to a shocking story of Nazi trafficking, sexual violence and agency, as she confronts the price of silence.

The Mystery of Paul

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Nadia

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Naila and the Uprising

Award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (Budrus SFJFF 2010) presents a dynamic portrait of Palestinian activist Naila Zakout.

The Names of Love

What happens when a tightly-wound Jewish scientist falls for a young Algerian sexpot in modern-day France? Cultures, mores and tragic histories collide—to surprisingly humorous effect. By hook, by crook and by routine wardrobe malfunction, the charming Baya seduces right-wingers in order to convert them. When she mistakenly propositions socialist Arthur and he politely declines (having to perform an autopsy on a goose), the spark of love ignites in this whimsical, unexpectedly sensitive romantic comedy.

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A strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother, Nino, as a baby.

Naomi

Tight, edgy Israeli film noir sets off a ring of betrayal and deception after a radiant young Haifa artist has an affair behind the back of her much older science professor husband. An homage to the thrillers of Hitchcock past, the story features a heaping dose of repressed Jewish guilt and builds to an unexpected twist with the professor and his mother forming an unlikely alliance. [MINIGUIDE 66/70]

The Nasty Girl

An insightful, merciless black comedy - one of the most viciously funny satires to come out of Germany. Schoolgirl Sonja (Lena Stolze, featured in THE WHITE ROSE) comes from a prominent family and has gained the respect of the people in her small Bavarian town by winning a prize for best essay in a European competition.

Natan

Bernard Natan saved Pathé studios from financial ruin and spearheaded a golden age of French cinema, and yet he is often tarred with the false accusation of establishing his career by peddling silent-era pornography. David Cairns’ and Paul Duane’s extraordinary documentary Natan uses some nontraditional techniques to relate this tale of how anti-Semitism destroyed the man and how he was written out of the history of French cinema. Preceded by Eden Rests.

Natasha

Jewish Canadian writer David Bezmozgis directs his acclaimed short story of forbidden teenage love between Mark, a Toronto slacker and his troubled Russian cousin by marriage. Bezmozgis’s highly provocative and deeply poignant coming-of-age drama features the extraordinarily measured performances of Alex Ozerov as Mark and newcomer Sasha K. Gordon as the sexually precocious Natasha, the dark star who forever alters Mark’s staid, suburban existence. —Thomas Logoreci

Nathan-ism

For over nine decades, artist Nathan Hilu obsessively draws his experiences as an 18-year-old Jewish private tasked with guarding high-level German war criminals at Nuremberg.

Nathan-ism

At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, an 18-year-old Jewish US Army private, was assigned to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. With brutish lines and annotated pastel sketches, Hilu obsessively documented those memories for the next 70 years. What begins as a peek at a unique witness to history grows into an absorbing study of the function of art as archive and invention.

Naturalized

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A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did

Can a man’s character be separated from his role in history? From his role in mass murder? With the volume of Holocaust material, these questions have certainly been touched on before. What makes David Evans’ documentary particularly fascinating is how close he brings us to the Nazi men that have become an almost abstract symbol of ultimate evil: He has us meet their sons.

Nazi VR

What may be the last WWII Nazi trial, was also the first to use virtual reality in the courtroom.

Necropolis

Beneath Jerusalem’s main cemetery where ancient Jewish rituals unfold, Palestinian workers carve a hidden city of tunnels for the dead, revealing the stark divide between the sacred realm above and the invisible labor below.

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