Don't miss the twenty-one short films in this year's program, each of which tells a big story. Narrative shorts compete for the SFJFF Film Movement Award and documentary shorts compete for the juried Best Short Documentary Award, the winner of which is eligible for the Academy Award in Documentary (Short Subject).
Through a variety of styles and modes, these filmmakers imagine and reimagine Jewish life - its beauty, its challenges, and its edges - in this program of short fiction films.
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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.
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These nonfiction short films take up the task of witnessing and documenting reality, which is so often stranger than fiction. True stories and documentary gems populate this program.
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SFJFF44 presents a collection of student shorts from Sapir College, the only academic institution in the Gaza envelope.These films reflect a spirit of pluralism that defies expectations.
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Wissam and his wife's dream of a better life for their daughters in Jerusalem becomes a nightmare when their citizenship application is rejected.
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Parents to a baby boy, a young gay Jewish couple must share they're not planning to circumcise the baby.
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On her first morning in an Israeli absorption center, Sureni does everything she can to shut out her new reality and pretend she never left Ethiopia.
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A joyous portrait of DJ and LGBTQ+ events organizer, Jo Gattenberg, and how Barbra Streisand has profoundly influenced her life.
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Working on her family’s ranch as they raise cattle for slaughter, 10-year-old Naama contemplates philosophical questions regarding life and death.
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Set amongst the backdrop of the Iran-Iraq war, Sharif and his fifteen year old daughter, Caroline take their last car ride together before her life is changed forever.
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A brief glimpse into the lives of the dwindling but passionate community of the Jews of Guantanamo.
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Layla’s hair is fed up with the silence and oppression she suffers, so one day it decides to disrupt her complacency.
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On a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.
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Simon is unexpectedly summoned to his grandmother’s house to meet her new boyfriend, Merv. The man he encounters there upends his understanding of love, loss, and Chinese takeout.
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Bar is forced to earn back her spot on the class soccer team. As the day progresses she realizes that the real problem is off the field.
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After getting in an embarrassing accident, Irina must rely on her old world father’s care, but he uses the opportunity to pester her about her modern life.
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A liberal public defender representing January 6th rioters takes on America’s epidemic of division with humanity, restoring trust and accountability one conversation at a time.
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Dave Roffman, Sauna Athlete, is on a quest to win the 2023 World Sauna Championships in Detroit.
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In the south of Israel, a boy dealing with the loss of his mother, befriends a mysterious wanderer who lives in the desert.
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An observational coming-of-age film documenting Shira Tama, a 12-year-old girl living in the Amona settlement, who is fighting the battle of her life to save her home.
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Meditations on parenting and the moving distance of memory from parents who have lost a child.
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When Agi gathers her family for a school identity project over dinner, they rethink who they are and what they want to eat.
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An intimate look at the non-conformists in punk subculture that fought back against white nationalists and neo-Nazis in the 90s.
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