The 42nd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (July 21 – August 7, 2022) presents over 70 films, events, parties, panels, and conversations in San Francisco, the East Bay, and online. SFJFF is dedicated to celebrating excellence in independent cinema that showcases the diversity of global Jewish life. San Francisco Chronicle readers can use the code SFCHRONICLE42 to receive a discount on all tickets, passes, and packages to the Festival.
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Famed Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa creates a stunning document of the 1941 Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jewish men, women, and children over a two-day period in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Decades before #MeToo, controversial Jewish Feminist Writer and public intellectual, Andrea Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture with revolutionary and iconoclastic flair.
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The brilliant David Strathairn gives a mesmerizing one-man performance as Jan Karski, a WWII Polish resistance fighter, whose testimony was emotionally given in Claude Lanzmann’s "Shoah."
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What does it mean to worship an image? This witty essay film takes us from Graceland to the Vatican to Kensington Palace over the course of 20 years to investigate three of the most photographed people of all time
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Shouting Down Midnight recounts how former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis stood for 13 hours while she filibustered the 2013 anti-abortion bill SB5, helping galvanize a new generation of activists in the struggle for reproductive freedom.
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Leonard Bernstein’s life journey defined his role as one of America’s most important musical figures, while fighting to create social change and inspire political activism.
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This year’s assortment of eclectic and potent documentary shorts takes us all over the world: from New York and California, to Germany, Israel, and Poland.
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Relationships, romantic and familial, are the glue that binds these superb narrative shorts together.
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JFI is proud to present the 2022 Freedom of Expression Award to Sergei Loznitsa, the director of "Babi Yar. Context ". Over the past 20 years, Ukrainian-born Loznitsa has produced a powerful body of award-winning documentary and narrative films that explore how “when memory turns into oblivion, when the past overshadows the future, it is the voice of cinema that articulates the truth.”
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In this transfixing wartime drama starring Daniel Auteuil, a Parisian jewelry shop under Nazi occupation becomes the site of a volatile, domestic secret between three ordinary people.
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When Esther (Nathalie Baye), a Parisian seamstress on the verge of retirement, offers a troubled young woman an internship at Dior, their disparate lives become as entangled as the threads in their needlework.
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The role of the United States before, during, and after one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history is explored in this three-part documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein.
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Meir and Tova are an Israeli married couple, prematurely aged by their semi-retired life of banal comfort. When a sexy bachelor moves into the penthouse, all their routines will be gleefully upended.
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A quirky comedy about a former Catholic school girl turned atheist who wrestles with an unplanned pregnancy, a proposal and pressure from her future in-laws to convert to Judaism.
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A wedding brings a middle-class Palestinian businessman and his family back to the small Arab village where he grew up. An unexpected military lockdown forces him to reassess his past and confront his future.
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While digging in an Israeli archive, a film researcher stumbles across never-before-seen footage from a long-lost Palestinian Liberation Organization archive seized by Israel in the 1982 Lebanon war.
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Six-year-old Alva and his filmmaker father share a loving vision of the world as a series of small revelations. Bedtime, family haircuts, aging and the stirrings of first love are sublimely explored in this cinematic essay. First Prize, DocAviv Film Festival; Best Documentary, Ophir Awards.
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All Pinhas wants is a supportive family life and to study for his bar mitzvah. His secular, single, hard-working mother can't provide it. Maybe their religious neighbor can.
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A graduate student conducts research into an alleged massacre in a Palestinian village in 1948. His work cuts through the silence, prompts a re-examination of why "Al Nakba (the catastrophe)” is taboo in Israeli society, and reveals opposing narratives.
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