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The fourth annual WinterFest – March 4-5, 2017 – expanded to two days of innovative Jewish film, including the blockbuster film The Zookeeper's Wife with director Nikki Caro in attendance. WinterFest 2017 took place at Alamo Drafthouse San Francisco and the Roxie Theater. Read on for a full recap of the 2017 program, a listing of sponsors and community partners and more.
The third annual WinterFest – February 27, 2016 – cemented JFI's hallmark, year-round showcase for new Jewish film as an essential stop on the Bay Area arts calendar. Featuring a collaboration with Citizen Film on a memorable musical performance and a sold-out screening of Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness, WinterFest 2016 also cemented the program's grounding in San Francisco's historic mission district.
An unlikely, multigenerational friendship between a failed comedian and a charming, alcoholic dermatologist helps both confront long-simmering regrets in this warm-hearted buddy comedy.
WINNER SFJFF39 Audience Award Best Narrative Feature | The film details the journey of Bert Trautmann in his rise from German World War II soldier to English footballing legend.
WINNER SFJFF39 Audience Award Best Documentary | "Amos Nachoum is one of the greatest underwater photographers of all times. Fascinated by the most fearsome creatures on Earth, he has developed a unique approach, that puts him face to face with his subjects, without any protection. He has swam with and photographed Anacondas, Giant Leopard Seals, Great White Sharks, Orcas and Crocodiles, but Now, at the age of 65, he is about to face his ultimate challenge: to swim, face face, unprotected with A Polar Bear. While he is on this journey to the Canadian high Arctic, he will also have to deal with an old and painful memory…."
Are you a young media maker and still looking for your summer plans? Apply to be sponsored by the Jewish Film Institute to attend the 2018 Jerusalem Film Workshop (June 24 – August 3, 2018).
To some, Gloria Allred is a money-grubbing, shrill feminist prone to tawdry theatrics; to others she’s the most effective and fearless women’s rights attorney in America. In Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain's (Hava Nagila: The Movie) intimate, warts-and-all documentary, one thing is certain: Allred’s 40-year devotion to asserting, protecting, and expanding the rights of women is unwavering and her influence unassailable.
Pulitzer is an American icon who spoke of "fake news" over one hundred years ago. He fought the dangers that the suppression of news had for a democracy long before our present threats to press freedom
In the late 19th century, Peter Sidenius is an ambitious young man from a devout Christian family in Western Denmark, who travels to the Danish capital of Copenhagen to study engineering, rebelling against his clergyman father. He comes into contact with the intellectual circles of a wealthy, Jewish family and seduces the elder daughter, Jakobe. Per, as he now calls himself, conceives a large-scale engineering project including the construction of a series of canals in his native Jutland, and lobbies for its construction. But just as Per seems to be about to make his dreams come true, his pride stands in the way.