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You have minutes to flee your home. What do you take with you? Refugee storytellers explore their prized possessions in short films about narrow escapes and expansive dreams. The Jewish Film Institute convenes Jewish, Muslim and LGBT refugees for a live-streamed multimedia presentation.
Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick records calls with her brother in recovery from heroin addiction to create an experimental rotoscoped film that crosses between past and present.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Submissions are now being accepted for the 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, presented by the Jewish Film Institute. SFJFF46 returns to the Bay Area in Summer 2026.
A Rebel Without a Pause shines a light on Dr. Quentin Young, a Jewish doctor from Chicago, who teamed up with the Black Panther Party and its Chairman Fred Hampton throughout the 1960s—and fought the FBI at great personal cost—to bring healthcare to the most vulnerable Americans.
An artist must say goodbye to her historic Chicago home of 50 years to relocate to a senior apartment complex. Her filmmaker friend moves in and helps prepare the house for sale, as his own family joins together to confront a series of health crises.