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TBA: Best First Feature Award Winner
TBA: Best First Feature Award Winner
Join us at the Piedmont Theater on the final day of SFJFF46 (Sunday, August 2) for a day of reprise screenings of Festival Award Winners, including the winner of the Best First Feature Award. Tickets are $10 until Friday, July 31 when the winners are announced.
TBA: SF Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award Winner
TBA: SF Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award Winner
Join us at the Piedmont Theater on the final day of SFJFF46 (Sunday, August 2) for a day of reprise screenings of Festival Award Winners, including the winner of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award. Tickets are $10 until Friday, July 31 when the winners are announced.
Closing Night: We Met at Grossinger's
Closing Night: We Met at Grossinger's
An immersive journey through the vibrant history of the Grossinger's Resort Hotel, a landmark of the Catskills—known as the Borscht Belt—that played a pivotal role in shaping Jewish American identity and culture.
Opening Night: Tell Me Everything
Opening Night: Tell Me Everything
In the 1980s, as pop music soars and AIDS spreads, 12-year-old Boaz discovers a shattering truth about his beloved father. Over the years, he struggles to mend their fractured relationship and restore their lost connection. Moshe Rosenthal ("Karaoke," SFJFF42 Opening Night) crafts a delicate, deeply human coming-of-age story.
The Wedding Entertainer (or The Tale of Moishe Badhan)
The Wedding Entertainer (or The Tale of Moishe Badhan)
To get the funds to marry off his own child, a disgraced Hasidic wedding-comedian must fight to reclaim his former glory in Gidi Dar’s hilarious caper.
What Was She Thinking
What Was She Thinking
Four close friends—proudly child-free women—take on every question the world throws at them with honesty, humor, and zero apologies.
Centerpiece Narrative: Where To?
Centerpiece Narrative: Where To?
A Palestinian Uber driver and a lost young Israeli cross paths during a series of taxi rides through Berlin, leading to unexpected moments that blend humor and heartache as their journeys unfold.
Who Killed Alex Odeh?
Who Killed Alex Odeh?
The assassination of a beloved Palestinian American activist in Southern California ignites a 40-year quest for justice, revealing the roots of a dangerous political movement that thrives today.
Twenty-One Portraits
Twenty-One Portraits
Photographer Jeff Cohen uncovers 21 portraits shot in San Francisco 50 years ago and embarks on a poignant journey to reconnect with, and re-photograph, his aging subjects.
Work in Progress: American Jew
Work in Progress: American Jew
Through a series of conversations I filmed before October 7, 2023, my octogenarian father shares with me his trajectory from working class Orthodox kid in Brooklyn to how his sense of belonging to Judaism has eroded because of Israel.
The Baddest Speechwriter of All
The Baddest Speechwriter of All
Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider’s view of the Civil Rights Movement.
Born Kicking
Born Kicking
Queer photographer Jill Posener’s fearless compulsion to document provides us with intimate views of radical feminist London, Bay Area 90s lesbian culture, and contemporary unhoused East Bay communities. A lifelong rebel, she has always felt “at odds”, and now contemplates where she may fit for her final chapter.

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