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Lost Cause
Lost Cause
A film about an allegorical musical about a Yom Kippur service that goes off the rails and transforms into an attempted community therapy session.
Magic Hour
Magic Hour
Erin and Charlie escape to the desert to navigate a challenging and unexpected new phase of their relationship. Screens with the Freedom of Expression Award presentation to Daveed Diggs.
Maintenance Artist
Maintenance Artist
Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 1969 manifesto declaring her acts of household maintenance as performance art launched a lifelong, revolutionary collaboration with the maintenance workers of museums, galleries, and cities.
Midas Man
Midas Man
Discover the rip-roaring true story of the “fifth Beatle”—legendary manager Brian Epstein. A story of one man’s radical faith in talent and the sacrifices he made to champion it.
Monk in Pieces
Monk in Pieces
Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her generation. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how such singular work can go on without her.
My Underground Mother
My Underground Mother
New York journalist Marisa Fox’s search for the secret past of her late Polish mother begs the question: What is the price of silence?
Negative Capability
Negative Capability
A stalled novelist struggles with a painful divorce and other vicissitudes of middle age in a poignant exploration of desire, meaning, and the elusive hope for renewal.
Network
Network
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings about mass media for its own profit but finds his message difficult to control. Pair it with Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words about the famous screenwriter.
Next Wave Party at the New Farm
Next Wave Party at the New Farm
Come together with fellow film lovers at The New Farm, a one of a kind community and creative space in San Francisco's Bayview District.

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Big Nights
SFJFF45's Big Nights honor stories big and small, illuminate the diversity of Jewish experiences, champion freedom of expression, and delight with their wit and charm.
JFI Supported Films
SFJFF45 is proud to showcase this dynamic group of films that received JFI support in their creation.
Special Events
From comedy performances and reprise screenings to book readings and community discussions, these special events must be experienced in person to be believed.
Next Wave Films
Next Wave spotlights films and filmmakers that explore the complicated, conflicting, and empowering elements of contemporary life.
Narrative Features
These narrative features shed light on the drama, and comedy, of Jewish life around the world.
Documentary Features
These non-fiction films train their lenses on vital stories in the Jewish community and beyond.