The 44th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (July 18 – August 4, 2024) presents over 65 films, events, parties, panels, and conversations in San Francisco and the East Bay. 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 CHRONICLE44 for a discount on all tickets, passes, and packages to the Festival.
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Diane Warren has penned songs for the world’s biggest stars, including Cher, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé. This in-depth documentary reveals the artist behind the songs.
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In this wildly entertaining offbeat comedy, a couple’s obsession with their chaotic neighbors spirals out of control when they play a vengeful prank on them.
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Rachel doesn't realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0 - her favorite pop star.
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Presented on the big screen with a live score, this restored silent film from 1922 was produced by Jewish filmmakers to counteract antisemitism.
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A collection of student shorts from Sapir College in southern Israel, a multicultural community near Gaza that was directly impacted by the attacks on October 7th.
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Jacob Appelbaum, “the most dangerous man in cyberspace,” is living in exile and the subject of documentarian Jamie Kastner’s examination of privacy and ethics.
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JFI is proud to present the annual Freedom of Expression award to Julie Cohen for her groundbreaking representations and subversive approach to storytelling.
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XCLD is a nuanced, humorous, and provocative look at the controversial and oft misunderstood issue of Cancel Culture, featuring interviews with Judy Gold, Loretta J. Ross, and Marc Maron.
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Before Mister Rogers there was Shari Lewis, best known for her skillful ventriloquism as the human counterpart to the beloved sock puppet Lamb Chop.
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A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
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In this fast-paced macabre comedy, an engaged interfaith couple’s plans to introduce their parents over a Shabbat dinner crumble when a prank goes fatally awry.
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A chronicle of the inimitable singer-songwriter’s journey from her Jewish childhood on a farm to producing a body of work that breaks boundaries and stereotypes.
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Reality Winner, a brilliant young misfit from Texas, faces a moral dilemma working as an NSA contractor: whether to expose Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
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In this intimate, genre-bending documentary, filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed attempts to piece together a portrait of her late mother after discovering her archive of work.
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From drag-queen rebel to rabbi, Amichai Lau Lavie radically reinvents religion and ritual and establishes a God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.
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Lyd is a sci-fi documentary about the city that "connected Palestine to the world" – exploring its history of expulsion and imagining a shared alternative future.
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Turning 21 and disabled, Samuel Habib wants to date, leave home, go to college. Can a community of disability activist rebels help him follow his dreams?
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