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Partner with the Enemy

This soulful documentary suggests the world might look different if women and mothers were calling the shots. Co-directors Chen Shelach and Duki Dror (Incessant Visions—Letters from an Architect, SFJFF 2011) follow Anat and Rola, entrepreneurs from Kibbutz Mizra and Ramallah who join forces to start a logistics company specializing in the release and transport of Palestinian cargo shipped to Israeli ports. But a hostile environment threatens the women’s partnership.

Party Favor

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Passengers

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Passengers, The

THE PASSENGERS tells the story of the Ethiopian Jews, and of the struggle for this final community to immigrate to Israel. The film follows the amazing journey of two young men, Demoz and Gezi, as they represent their abandoned community on a fateful mission in America. With intimate access and detailed historical context we follow the unlikely spokesmen, out of Ethiopia for the first time in their lives, as they deal with intense pressure, homesickness and ups and downs of a grassroots campaign, while growing personally from the life-changing journey. When only one of the pair of best friends is unexpectedly approved to immigrate to Israel, they must reconcile the decision and their hopes and dreams while facing an uncertain future.

The Passion According to the Polish Community of Pruchnik

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The Passion of the Jew

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Sidney Lumet’s searing noir drama (1964) features Rod Steiger’s unforgettable performance as Sol Nazerman, a lonely, bitter Jewish pawnbroker in New York’s Harlem. Shot entirely on location with an edgy jazz score by Quincy Jones, The Pawnbroker is one of the earliest American films to deal with the lingering psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors.

Peace of Mind

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Peace One Day

An individual genuinely can make a difference! Jeremy Gilley set out to persuade the United Nations to create an annual global ceasefire day. This excerpt focuses on the Israeli and Palestinian responses to his request.

A Peaceful Sabbath

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Peaches of March

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The Peacock That Passed Over

Four years ago a peacock suddenly landed and has settled ever since in the grounds of a Leeds synagogue. Whimsical and charming, the film explores the responses of a diverse section of that Yorkshire community.

Pebbles

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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Born into great wealth yet emotionally rebellious, American socialite Peggy Guggenheim spent a lifetime—and a fortune—breaking society’s rules to become one of the preeminent art collectors of the 20th century and a tireless champion of the avant- garde. This absorbing documentary profiles the bohemian tastemaker who helped discover such talents as Kandinsky, Cocteau, Dali, and Pollock, while pursuing sexual liaisons with the likes of Samuel Beckett and Paul Bowles.

The Pencil

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People of the Graphic Novel

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The People vs. Fritz Bauer

In late 1950s Germany attorney general Fritz Bauer (played by The White Ribbon’s lauded Burghart Klaussner) is intent on bringing the infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann to trial. This riveting historical thriller chronicles the hindrances and the potentially mortal dangers Bauer faces as a closeted gay Jewish lawyer working alongside men in the government who can bring criminals like Eichmann to justice but who ultimately have the power to conceal their own Nazi pasts. —Zoe PollakScreened at Berlinale 2016

Pepe's Watch

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A Perfect Day for Banana Leaves

Bananas grown in the north of Israel reach their final destination in Gaza. They journey south through the Israeli landscape and toward the Palestinians across the wall as we witness from both sides how the merchants trade and ultimately who profits and who loses in this fascinating business operation.

Perfect Mother

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Perin's Dual Identity

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Peripheral Visions (Shorts Program)

Peripheral Visions provides a cinematic exploration of the unique cultural contributions of Jews of Color in expanding collective understandings of what it means to be Jewish.

Periphery

Periphery is an evocative film that bears witness to ethnic diversity in the Jewish community.

Perlasca, An Italian Hero

What makes a man risk his life for people he doesn’t know? Perlasca, an Italian Hero is a taut drama about one man’s remarkable courage in saving 5,200 Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. This account of an Italian’s resistance to fascism is based on the true story of Giorgio Perlasca (dynamically played by Luca Zingaretti), a businessman who masqueraded as a Spanish diplomat in Budapest at the end of World War II.

Persian Lessons | Opening Night

A young Belgian man, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but then Gilles is assigned a seemingly untenable mission: to teach Persian to an SS officer.

Persian Story

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Personal Affairs

In this dry, bitingly funny satire set in Nazareth, Ramallah and Sweden, a long-married Palestinian couple communicates through an elaborate series of mutually inflicted micro-aggressions. An official selection for the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Maha Haj’s deftly insightful debut is both a timeless portrait of domestic discontent as well as a thoroughly contemporary and droll look at the bemusing indignities of border checkpoints, communications technology and impulsive romance.

Personal Goals

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The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

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La Petite Jerusalem

Eighteen-year-old Laura is torn between her Orthodox upbringing and the intellectual and physical pleasures of the secular world. She lives in a low-income suburb of Paris with her tight-knit Tunisian family and is very close to her sister Mathilde. When Laura meets Djamel, an Algerian Muslim émigré, a romance ignites. This passionate drama follows a young woman finding her spiritual, sexual and intellectual true north.

Petting Zoo

In 1974 a local TV news crew station came into our home to document and learn about Jewish rituals. A narrative evolves about the formation of American Jewish identity, and transforms into an analogy for the current rise in nationalism and anti-Semitism in America and the world.

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