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Tale of the Three Jewels

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The Talent Given Us

Family road trips should be illegal. But then you would miss out on one of the wackiest, fun-house-mirrored, rollicking rides of your life with this family, their meshugas flapping from their mini-van like so many damp bathing suits. Sundance hit The Talent Given Us is Wagner’s narrative feature film about a New York Jewish family, which happens to star his New York Jewish family.

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Baruch dreams of going to heaven after this life—so he marries a woman who puts him through hell. That is, until everything takes a turn.

The Tasters

Based on Rosella Postorino’s novel At the Wolf’s Table, a group of women are caught in a deadly game when they are forced by the SS to taste Hitler’s food for poison.

Taxi Blues

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Te Extraño (I Miss You)

Fabian Hofman’s semi-autobiographical account of a Jewish family caught up in Argentina’s Dirty War of the 1970s centers on teenager Javier, who watches his middle-class existence come apart as leftist brother Adrian tries to stand up against the military takeover. After Adrian becomes one of the thousands of political dissidents “disappeared” by the regime, his family sends Javier to stay with relatives in Mexico, in a memorable film with a hushed, cumulative force. Preceded by the New Jewish Filmmaking Project’s Escape from Suburbia.

Teacher of Genius

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The Teaches of Peaches

Celebrating her groundbreaking album’s 20th anniversary, multihyphenate performer and iconic feminist Peaches continues to inspire audiences with her authentic, outrageous, and joyfully adults-only performances.

Tears of Stone

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Tears Tears Only Tears

A young woman and her ex-lover embark on a road trip to euthanize her beloved dog. Along the way, they confront buried emotions, irreversible choices, and realizations that ultimately set them both free.

Tehilim

A father’s mysterious disappearance throws his family into a spiritual crisis in this engrossing, beautifully acted drama set in modern Jerusalem. Uncertain if Eli is dead or alive, his family copes with their confusion in ways that test their faith and love. Wife Alma, a secular Jew, chafes when her observant in-laws insist on ritual prayers (tehilim), while her young sons embark on a religious scheme that precipitates a moral crisis.

Tel Aviv By Girls

Tiffany and Eliette are free-spirited Parisians who meet in Tel Aviv for a week of soul-searching and spiritual awakening. As they avoid responsibility and reality, each begins to confront an identity crisis. The result is a mesmerizing docu-fiction hybrid that deftly conveys the spontaneity of life. At times whimsical, at times profound, this compelling film explores the complexity of modern womanhood and the fragility of human relationships.

Tel Aviv On Fire | CENTERPIECE NARRATIVE

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.

Tell Me a Riddle

This seldom seen gem was not only the debut directorial feature of this year’s Freedom of Expression Award honoree Lee Grant but also showcased at the first SFJFF in 1981. Oscar winning screen legends Melvyn Douglas (Being There) and Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek) are an elderly Jewish émigré couple who try to rekindle their troubled marriage by taking a road trip, ending up in glorious late-1970s San Francisco.

Opening Night: Tell Me Everything

In the 1980s, as pop music soars and AIDS spreads, 12-year-old Boaz discovers a shattering truth about his beloved father. Over the years, he struggles to mend their fractured relationship and restore their lost connection. Moshe Rosenthal ("Karaoke," SFJFF42 Opening Night) crafts a delicate, deeply human coming-of-age story.

Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press

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Tell Your Children

This beautifully crafted and powerful fiction short is the story of a little girl surviving the January 1945 mass murders by the Arrow Cross at the Danube’s bank in Hungary.

Ten for Grandpa

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The Tenth Man

Ariel lives in New York, far from the lively Jewish district in Buenos Aires where he grew up. But when his father summons him back home for help, Ariel reluctantly returns. The Tenth Man is a kindhearted comedy with a gentle romantic touch. Director Daniel Burman (All In, SFJFF 2012) joyfully upends the old adage that you can never go home again and instead says, maybe under the right circumstances, you can. —Jay Rosenblatt

Terezin Diary

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Terrorists In Retirement

In 1943-33, the German Army stationed in Paris was constantly besieged by a group of local terrorists. These 'terrorists' were, in fact, resistance fighters with a particular motivation for their actions. They were not French, but Polish, Rumanian, and Armenian Jews. Their mother tongue was Yiddish, and they were reacting to the plight of their kinsmen in Germany. As furriers, tailors, and leather workers by trade, these men did not know how to use guns. They learned, and eventually were responsible for bombing German patrol guards, shooting the enemy's officers and high-ranked officials, and derailing trains that led to and from the destruction in Germany. Many were arrested. Several were executed. This documentary tells the story of the few who survived and returned to their clothing workshops, seemingly forgotten. The very existence of the film " Terrorist in Retirement" proves that their noble fight did not go unnoticed.

Testimonies

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Testour

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Tevye

Yiddish Art Theater’s Maurice Schwartz adapted, directed and stars in this classic 1939 Yiddish melodrama shot in New Jersey, based on the Sholem Aleichem stories that would later inspire Fiddler on the Roof. Protagonist Tevye the Milkman struggles to uphold tradition in the face of social tumult, including the scandalous elopement of his daughter Chava with the gentile Fyedka. The dialogues will delight anyone with an affinity for Yiddish language and culture.

Thank You and Goodnight

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Thanks, Babs!

Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed racing through life, one five-year plan at a time.

That Woman

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That's How You Make a Torah

Finally in 2007, Jen Taylor Friedman became the first woman known in history to scribe a Torah. Meet Taylor Friedman and fellow trailblazing scribe Rabbi Linda Motzkin, who creates kosher parchment in her backyard.

That's Not Me

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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary | CENTERPIECE DOCUMENTARY

It begins as a documentary about “The Amazing Johnathan,” a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s—but becomes a bizarre story about the unravelling of his documentarian.

The Eighth Day

Parents to a baby boy, a young gay Jewish couple must share they're not planning to circumcise the baby.

The Inspection

Julia, an experienced history teacher in a rather quiet high school, faces a school inspector.

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