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A New York Times writer visits Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The city's energy and his relationship with a younger man he meets there bring him back to life.
A series of short documentary films as part of the JFI presents A 40th Anniversary Hanukkah Celebration. These are short documentary finalists for our annual Short Documentary Award.
Joza’s humble appearance does not reveal his wild past. Now a tour guide in Jerusalem, once Israel's biggest cocaine dealer - he’s been constantly reinventing himself while making all the possible mistakes along the way.
JFI Completion Grant Awardee | The story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966, Duncan tries to break up an argument between white and Black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. That night, police burst into Duncan’s trailer and arrest him for assault on a minor.
Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings.
FREE WITH RSVP | Join us online December 12th at 6:00pm for a special event celebrating 40 years of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
For 50 years a family archive sat in the dark, until Rotem persuaded her mother Varda to watch her childhood anew. 8mm films were discovered as documentation of an amateur filmmaker, Varda's mother, who documented her life in Tel Aviv in the late 1960s. The films shed light on past memories mixed with the present and of mother-daughter relationships.
Using rare archival and recent interview footage, Alliata documents the experience of a young Norwegian boy taken by the Nazis and forced to live in a Lebensborn orphanage designed to enhance the Aryan race.
EDDY’S WORLD tells the entertaining story of Eddy Goldfarb, a 98-year-old working toy inventor, best known for the iconic Yakity Yak Teeth and nearly 800 classic toys. He designed his first toys while on submarine duty during WWII, launching his 80 year career as an independent toy inventor.
Crossing to Sweden: JFI presents the San Francisco premiere of The Crossing followed by a panel conversation about Sweden's role in assisting Jews during WWII. THE CROSSING tells the story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto's parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own.