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How to Change the World

Before it was the world’s largest activist organization, Greenpeace was the love child of an eclectic group of Vancouver neighbors (journalists, scientists, and hippies). United in their opposition to a U.S. atomic test on an Alaskan island, they sailed an aging fishing boat straight for the test site.


Little Caesar

Edward G. Robinson (born Emmanuel Goldenberg) is riveting as the ruthless Italian American mobster Caesar Enrico Bandello in this classic gangster film set in Prohibition era Chicago. One of the great iconic Jewish actors of the last century, Robinson seethes as Caesar (known as Rico), a maniacal, ambitious crook whose archetypal journey inspired Martin Scorsese to call the film "a morality play."


Geburtig

A journalist (Ruth Rieser) wants a Holocaust survivor (Peter Simonischek) to testify against a former Nazi.


Foul Gesture

An offensive hand gesture sets into motion a tragic series of events in director Tzahi Grad's tense tale of one man who refuses to bend to the powers that be. It's Holocaust Memorial Day, and Michael Klienhouse's wife, Tamar, has just flipped 60-year-old war hero Dreyfus the finger.


Forgiveness

A 20-year-old American Israeli decides to move back to Israel and reconnect with his roots, only to be institutionalized in a mental-health facility constructed on the grounds of a Palestinian village that was massacred by a Jewish militia back in 1948.


Eight Men Out

The Chicago White Sox, who are set to play the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series of 1919, are at odds with their team's owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who pays his players unsatisfactory wages despite the team's popularity.


SFJFF39 Festival Launch and Press Preview

The 39th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival invites you to the Festival Launch & Press Preview event where the full 2019 lineup of programs, themes, events, awardees, parties and panels will be revealed.


WinterFest 2021

WinterFest is the Jewish Film Institute's hallmark, year-round showcase of exciting and transcendent Jewish films from around the world. The Eighth edition will take place virtually February 25 – 29th, 2021 through the JFI Digital Screening Room.