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Wife Me
Wife Me
Wife Me tells the story of a young couple that is forced to unpack a difficult topic of discussion after a particularly turbulent family event.
The Wild One
The Wild One
Powered by his vivid recollections, legendary director of stage and film Jack Garfein reflects on how his tragic childhood informed his unique, driven and uncompromising vision as an artist.
The Wild One
The Wild One
An innovative, cinematic exploration of acting as a form of survival, through the life and work of Jack Garfein: Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio co-founder, and controversial stage and screen director. A journey of an enigmatic, censored artist, The Wild One explores the importance of his legacy and questions how art can draw on personal memory to better enlighten our present.
Willem & Frieda
Willem & Frieda
Stephen Fry tenderly researches artists Willem and Frieda, who used their skills to forge identity cards that saved thousands during WWII.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
The 1960s’ most famous, rabble-rousing and radical defense attorney is put on the witness stand by two of his two daughters in this riveting documentary. For Sarah and Emily Kunstler, it’s an effort to understand and reconcile with a man of contradictions who defended not only civil rights activists, the Chicago 7 and American Indian militants, but also accused rapists, terrorists and assassins. An exciting portrait of every revolutionary’s ideal= lawyer. Followed by social justice discussion at the Castro.
Winner | Take Action Spotlight
Winner | Take Action Spotlight
Reality Winner, a brilliant young misfit from Texas, faces a moral dilemma working as an NSA contractor: whether to expose Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Winter Hunt
Winter Hunt
A young girl holds a former Nazi and his adult daughter hostage in this psychological thriller.
With a Little Patience
With a Little Patience
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With Raised Hands
With Raised Hands
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Within the Eye of the Storm
Within the Eye of the Storm
Bassam, a Palestinian, and Rami, an Israeli, share a tragic common bond: Both of their daughters were killed in acts of senseless violence at the hands of their enemies. Shelley Hermon’s moving documentary follows the struggles and the deep friendship of these two men who in the wake of unspeakable loss seek to break the cycle of violence by opening hearts and minds, one conversation at a time.
Without Me
Without Me
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The Wolberg Family
The Wolberg Family
As the Jewish mayor of a town in French Basque country, Simon Wolberg (François Damiens) has worked to modernize his isolated burg. As a father, he provides his family with an effortless bourgeois life. Now, both town and family have outgrown his nourishing, controlling ways. The elegant directorial debut of French screenwriter Axelle Ropert winningly presents offbeat characters and a thoughtful look at a family’s and a town’s coming-of-age.
The Woman Who Didn't Know How to Love
The Woman Who Didn't Know How to Love
Varda never forgave her mother, Yehudit, for failing to love her. When her daughter Rotem discovers Yehudit’s hidden archive, she drags Varda into an unexpectedly funny, painfully honest three-generation conversation—insisting on a reconciliation only cinema can make possible.
Women in Sink
Women in Sink
Israeli filmmaker Iris Zaki takes a job as the shampoo girl in a hair salon in Wadi NisNas, Haifa’s lively Christian Arab neighborhood. Zaki elicits stories about history, friendship and small kindnesses as she massages her clients’ scalps and finds glimmers of hope for coexistence in an intimate documentary that is full of heart.
Women Laughing
Women Laughing
The New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly talks, draws, and laughs with some of the most celebrated and groundbreaking cartoonists at the iconic magazine as they reflect on the essential work of women cartoonists today and over the last century.
Women of the Wall
Women of the Wall
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Women of Virtue
Women of Virtue
Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Hasidic community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.
Wondrous Oblivion
Wondrous Oblivion
The scene is London, 1960. Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is a good Jewish boy with one big problem: he’s in love with the game of cricket, but he’s a terrible athlete -- at school he’s forced to be the scorekeeper. But David’s life, and that of his attractive refugee mother and stubborn Polish father, is about to change radically, when to the dismay of their narrow-minded neighbors, a black Jamaican family moves in next door. David’s budding friendship with his new-found cricket mentor (the marvelous Delroy Lindo) will test the bounds of tolerance and loyalty for this gentlest of boys. Wondrous Oblivion, brimming with calypso and reggae sounds, is a deeply felt, masterfully acted comic drama that is as engaging for younger viewers as it is for adults. And if you thought Bend It Like Beckham was the best thing to happen to soccer since Pelé, you’ll love what Wondrous Oblivion does for cricket -- it might even help you understand the rules.
The Wooden Gun
The Wooden Gun
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Woods
Woods
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Woody Before Allen
Woody Before Allen
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A Word Required
A Word Required
I ran away from home in October, just when the war started. In this liminal time, I encountered both the beauty and grief of being connected and attached.
The A Word
The A Word
This engrossing Israeli TV show portrays familial relationships in all their beautiful, flawed glory. Meir is the earthy patriarch of the Rotenberg clan who lives alongside his daughter Ayelet and her family. Meir’s son Avishay has returned from Tel Aviv to look after the family farm and mend his marriage. When his wife Yael, a doctor, raises autism concerns about Ayelet’s young son, it roils this already complicated interpersonal stew.
The Worst Company in the World
The Worst Company in the World
Love and humor are plentiful—even if business isn’t—in Regev Contes’s absorbing documentary about the small Israeli insurance company his father is running into the ground. Carol, a Czech immigrant, oversees the company with his brother Latzi, a man whose talent for cooking potatoes far outstrips his business acumen. Contes’s award-winning film chronicles their operations over one fiscal year, while affectionately exploring the intricacies of a family-run business.
The Worst Jewish Football Team in the World
The Worst Jewish Football Team in the World
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Would I Lie to You?
Would I Lie to You?
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Wrestling Jerusalem
Wrestling Jerusalem
Writer/actor Aaron Davidman takes us on a whirlwind journey that presents competing narratives of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He gracefully embodies 17 characters, moving deftly from male to female, Palestinian to Israeli, American to European. Davidman’s ability to empathize makes him an excellent tour guide. Masterfully shot backstage during a live performance, and in the desert, the film conjures cafes, buses and settlements as well as the deeply human stories they contain. —Stephanie Rapp
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Academy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock spent more than three years capturing the public work and private life of America’s most prodigiously talented, intellectually ferocious, politically engaged, proudly homosexual and gleefully Jewish playwright, Tony Kushner. Following him through a particularly fertile period in his life, from just after 9/11 in New York to the eve of the 2004 election, Mock makes a strong case for why he just might be a candidate for Living National Treasure.
The Writer
The Writer
Critically acclaimed Israeli Arab writer Sayed Kashua (hit TV series Arab Labor, SFJFF 2008–13), delivers a masterfully nuanced dramatic series about Kateb, a 40-year-old Israel Arab writer, who, like Amjad, the protagonist of Arab Labor, is living in Israel and struggling with an identity crisis. Kateb (like Kashua in real life) faces the challenge of growing creatively in Israeli society, which sometimes has preconceived notions about even its most talented Palestinian writer. —Nancy K. Fishman
The Writing on the Wall Project
The Writing on the Wall Project
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WWW.RACHELORMONT.COM | Next Wave Spotlight
WWW.RACHELORMONT.COM | Next Wave Spotlight
Rachel doesn't realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0 - her favorite pop star.
XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture | Local Spotlight
XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture | Local Spotlight
XCLD is a nuanced, humorous, and provocative look at the controversial and oft misunderstood issue of Cancel Culture, featuring interviews with Judy Gold, Loretta J. Ross, and Marc Maron.
Yael Bridge: Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo / The Last Jews of Guantanamo
Yael Bridge: Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo / The Last Jews of Guantanamo
A brief glimpse into the lives of the dwindling but passionate community of the Jews of Guantanamo.
Yael Luttwak: My Favorite Neoconservative
Yael Luttwak: My Favorite Neoconservative
Yael Luttwak (SFJFF 2012 Filmmaker in Residence) returns home and turns her camera on her father, famed Department of Defense military strategist Edward Luttwak. The film offers a rare and complex glimpse of beltway politics through these political polar opposites.
Yana's Friends
Yana's Friends
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Yasmin Hed: IPI
Yasmin Hed: IPI
When a filmmaker unearths 16mm footage filmed by her late father of a musical born in apartheid South Africa, she locates the forgotten performers whose stories of resilience, long buried by history, finally rise through the transcendent power of music and dance.