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- The "Socalled" Movie
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Meet Socalled (aka Josh Dolgin): musician, arranger, rapper, producer, composer, magician, filmmaker and visual artist, to name just a few of his talents! Blasting through boundaries separating different cultures, eras and generations, Socalled creates a wholly unique sound combining klezmer, funk, soul and hip-hop. Not too shabby for a nice Jewish boy from Montreal. This is a dynamic, kaleidoscopic portrait of an iconoclastic artist at the peak of his powers.
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Meet Socalled (aka Josh Dolgin): musician, arranger, rapper, producer, composer, magician, filmmaker and visual artist, to name just a few of his talents! Blasting through boundaries separating different cultures, eras and generations, Socalled creates a wholly unique sound combining klezmer, funk, soul and hip-hop. Not too shabby for a nice Jewish boy from Montreal. This is a dynamic, kaleidoscopic portrait of an iconoclastic artist at the peak of his powers.
- '38 Vienna Before the Fall
- '66 Was a Good Year for Tourism
- 'Specially Wonderful Affair, A
- 100 Children
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Lena Kuchlar Silverman knew that all you need is love. At the end of World War II, this extraordinary Polish Jewish woman gathered 100 Jewish orphans in Krakow and loved them back to life.
- 100 Voices: A Journey Home
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Many of the world’s finest Jewish singers return to Poland, the birthplace of cantorial music, for a series of exuberant, history-making concerts in this musical documentary that is both uplifting and deeply moving. Most American Jews come from Poland, notes Cantor Nathan Lam, who led an assembly of American cantors on a goodwill trip to sing at the Warsaw Opera House. “Jewish life itself was defined in Poland.” Yet the Holocaust, which took place mostly on Polish soil, left Jewish culture there all but eradicated. This fascinating, heartwarming chronicle of the cantors’ 2009 trip combines a surprising history lesson with a stirring message of reconciliation and homecoming. Preceded in San Francisco by a concert featuring Cantors Nathan Lam and Marcus Feldman (Los Angeles), and Roslyn Barak and Sharon Bernstein (San Francisco), accompanied by the Castro’s Mighty Wurlitzer!
- 119 Bullets + 3
- 17 Rue Saint Fiacre
- 18-J
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When a deadly explosion ripped through a Buenos Aires Jewish community center in 1994, it made headlines, but the case was never fully investigated and never solved. More than a decade later, in an effort to reclaim the tragedy from oblivion, 10 noted Argentinean filmmakers offer their personal responses in an anthology of short films, a kaleidoscope of visual and narrative interpretations that is by turns reflective, dramatic, wistful, investigative, beautiful and sad.
- 1919
- 1968 Happy New Year
- Spotlight Series 2010 SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award
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Sayed Kashua – Israel’s Leading Satirist
Sayed Kashua’s best-selling satirical novels and hit television series Arab Labor lob irreverent arrows at the absurdity of life for Arabs and Jews in his native country of Israel, where he is a unique voice. Writing in Hebrew rather than Arabic, and endearing himself to millions through his primetime series, Kashua’s satire manages, miraculously, both to skewer everyone and somehow bring Arabs and Jews together in wincing, barrier-breaking laughter. Kashua will accept his award following the San Francisco premiere of the second season of Arab Labor on July 28. See also the documentary Sayed Kashua – Forever Scared.
- 39 Pounds of Love
- 5 Days
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On August 15, 2005, Israeli defense forces were about to forcibly remove some 8,000 remaining Jewish settlers from their homes, schools, farms and synagogues in Gaza. This documentary gives us a front-row seat to the unfolding drama that many feared would cause catastrophic violence. Deploying eight camera crews simultaneously, Shamir gains unprecedented access to all sides of the confrontation as it happens. Followed in Berkeley by panel discussion.
- 500 Dunam on the Moon
- 51 Birch Street
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Veteran filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents’ 54-year marriage was a good one, so he’s unprepared when, just a few months after his mother’s death, his father Mike announces that he’s moving to Florida to live with his former secretary. Spanning 60 years and three generations, Block’s superbly crafted documentary about his parents’ marriage eloquently shows what can happen when we question our most fundamental assumptions about family.
- 575 Castro St.
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Jenni Olson’s quietly electrifying tribute to Harvey Milk focuses on his camera store at 575 Castro Street.
- 66 Seasons
- 72 Virgins
- 77 Steps
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Preceded by Wajeh, 16 min. Filmmaker Ibtisam Mara’ana leaves her Arab-Muslim village to make a life for herself in Tel Aviv—and make a movie about her journey. Early on, she meets her Jewish-Canadian neighbor Jonathan, who becomes her boyfriend. Mara’ana creates a raw, nuanced portrait of their cross-cultural relationship as it unfolds against the backdrop of the 2009 Gaza war, and asks, can love conquer all?
- 888-Go-Kosher
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A day in the life of New York’s only rapid-response koshering service. A humorous and enlightening documentary look at the Jewish Orthodox world.
- 8x8x8 Film Fest
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On Hannukah we spin a dreidel marked with four letters, an acronym for the phrase “a great miracle happened there,” to commemorate the unlikely triumph of outnumbered Jewish Maccabee soldiers over their Hellenized occupiers in ancient Jerusalem. Tonight the Hub of the JCCSF and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival present 8 moving stories that illuminate the miracle –and the mystery—of survival.
- 9 Star Hotel
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An intimate look inside the lives of Palestinian construction workers who cross illegally into Israel in search of a livelihood. Director Ido Haar gains extraordinary access to a small band of workers who build luxury apartments by day but at night avoid arrest by scurrying into clandestine makeshift huts. Their determination to scratch out a living sheds poignant new light on the interdependence of two separated societies.
- 9 Years Later
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Raised as a Muslim in Morocco, Danielle is now Jewish and a single mother living in Israel. At the beginning of this moving documentary, Danielle decides to return to Morocco to gain custody of the son she left behind. The filmmakers trace her difficult journey, skillfully unveiling the fascinating details of Danielle’s family history, while exploring themes of class, religious identity and the bonds between women.
- Abe's Manhood
- About the Jews of Yemen
- Abraham and Eugenia: Stories from Jewish Cuba
- Abraham File, The
- Acne
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At thirteen, Rafa Bregman is balanced on the brink of youth’s innocence and the expectations of adulthood—namely, a young man’s first kiss. Meanwhile, his family structure is shifting and his pimples are flaring out of control. Acné is a charmingly melancholic look back at the tiny battles of youth and the joys that come in between as a boy awkwardly makes his way toward what it means to be a man.
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At thirteen, Rafa Bregman is balanced on the brink of youth’s innocence and the expectations of adulthood—namely, a young man’s first kiss. Meanwhile, his family structure is shifting and his pimples are flaring out of control. Acné is a charmingly melancholic look back at the tiny battles of youth and the joys that come in between as a boy awkwardly makes his way toward what it means to be a man.
- Across Time and Space
- Adam
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When nice Jewish girl Beth (Rose Byrne) moves into a new apartment, the refreshingly literal, brainy guy next door, Adam (Hugh Dancy), is probably not what her upper-middle-class Jewish mom (Amy Irving) and dad (Peter Gallagher) had in mind for her. But cupid’s arrow strikes these two different denizens of Gotham hard; they have major chemistry and within minutes we find ourselves rooting for them to overcome differences in culture and communication styles.
- Adam Sandler's Hanukah Song
- Adam's Circus
- Addes
- Adio
- After the End of the World
- Ahead of Time
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Meet Ruth Gruber, 97, ace journalist and photographer for more than 70 years. Hurtling herself out of Brooklyn and into global politics, she witnessed some of the most critical junctures in contemporary world history—and specifically Jewish history—while drawing the eyes of the world to the Nuremberg trials, the plight of the ship Exodus ’47, United Nations committee meetings in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel.
- Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948
- Albert Alcalay: Portrait of an Artist
- Alice and I
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What does a broken-hearted French guy would do with three older Jewish ladies in one car? Find out as Simon, while driving his aunt and her two friends, gets a phone call from his irritable girlfriend.
- Alien's Place, The
- Alila
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In a working-class Tel Aviv neighborhood, the turbulent and poignant lives of illicit lovers, a divorced couple whose son has gone AWOL from the army, the ex-wife’s younger lover, an elderly Holocaust survivor, illegal foreign workers, and a half-crazed policewoman all converge. Renowned director Amos Gitai’s visually powerful and emotionally masterful ensemble drama is a microcosm of Israeli society.
- All Done and Dusted
- All Jews Out
- All That Really Matters
- Allen Ginsberg's "Ballad of the Skeletons"
- Almonds and Raisins
- Almonds and Wine
- Almost Peaceful
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An exquisitely acted ensemble piece, Almost Peaceful explores the hopes, passions and melancholy of a group of Jewish tailors and seamstresses in post-war Paris. Many of the employees in Albert and Lea's atelier have been scarred by the war, but in the color-drenched world of fabrics and the camaraderie of working together, they rebuild their lives.
- Alpha Blondy's Jerusalem
- Altalena
- Amazing Grace
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Writer and director Amos Guttman examines the relationship that develops between two Israeli men in this complex and compelling drama.
- Americaner Shadchen
- Amos Gutman, Filmmaker
- Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams
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Internationally acclaimed writer Amos Oz is a rare voice of compassion arising out of the fractious, beautiful landscape of Israel. This gorgeous documentary does justice to Oz’s rich imagination and political clarity as it follows him on a book tour after the publication of his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, offering a rare passageway into the world of the author and veteran Peace Now activist.
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Internationally acclaimed writer Amos Oz is a rare voice of compassion arising out of the fractious, beautiful landscape of Israel. This gorgeous documentary does justice to Oz’s rich imagination and political clarity as it follows him on a book tour after the publication of his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, offering a rare passageway into the world of the author and veteran Peace Now activist.
- Amy
- An Appeal to the Jews of the World
- And Along Come Tourists
- And Thou Shalt Love
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A closeted Orthodox Israeli soldier has feelings for his study partner.
- Andreyevs of Brighton Beach
- Angel Levine, The
- Angry Harvest
- Anita
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Anita, a young Jewish woman with Down syndrome, lives with her devoted mother above the shop her late father started in a commercial district of Buenos Aires. Into their sweetly sedate domestic life the outside world intrudes with unexpected fury. But as Anita wanders the city lost, she finds compassion in unlikely quarters through the simple force of her ingenuous personality and open heart. Wrenching, lovely, suffused with life, Anita is a profoundly hopeful study of human innocence, compassion and resilience in a fragile, troubled world.
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Anita, a young Jewish woman with Down syndrome, lives with her devoted mother above the shop her late father started in a commercial district of Buenos Aires. Into their sweetly sedate domestic life the outside world intrudes with unexpected fury. But as Anita wanders the city lost, she finds compassion in unlikely quarters through the simple force of her ingenuous personality and open heart. Wrenching, lovely, suffused with life, Anita is a profoundly hopeful study of human innocence, compassion and resilience in a fragile, troubled world.
- Anna's Summer
- Anne Frank Remembered
- Anou Banou: The Daughters of Utopia
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
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It plays like a mockumentary—think This Is Spinal Tap in the frozen North—but this wonderful and often hilarious documentary follows the antics, on- and offstage, of a once famous Canadian heavy metal band, Anvil, founded in the 1970s by two Toronto school friends (and nice Jewish boys). Anvil had a megahit album in 1982, influencing a generation of metal bands; then, missteps and struggles. But Anvil rocks on.
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It plays like a mockumentary—think This Is Spinal Tap in the frozen North—but this wonderful and often hilarious documentary follows the antics, on- and offstage, of a once famous Canadian heavy metal band, Anvil, founded in the 1970s by two Toronto school friends (and nice Jewish boys). Anvil had a megahit album in 1982, influencing a generation of metal bands; then, missteps and struggles. But Anvil rocks on.
- Anya (in and out of focus)
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Would you like an unrelenting documentary filmmaker for a parent? Emmy-award winner Marian Marzynski, Anya’s doting father, doesn’t put down the camera for 30 years. A dream until adolescent Anya realizes there’s a life beyond camera range. Through it all, the film is a test and a testament to love and honesty. But please--don’t try this at home.
- Appointed, The
- Aquarium
- Arab Labor
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This delightfully provocative Israeli sitcom follows Amjad, an Arab Israeli who works for a Hebrew-language newspaper. Everyone is fair game for parody in this sidesplitting and groundbreaking hit series, shown in its entirety—from Amjad’s father who sells a rabbi’s Passover leftovers on Ebay, to his Jewish coworker who presumes every Arab taxi driver is a kidnapper. Writer Sayed Kashua just might be the Arab Israeli incarnation of Woody Allen—and Dave Chapelle.
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This delightfully provocative Israeli sitcom follows Amjad, an Arab Israeli who works for a Hebrew-language newspaper. Everyone is fair game for parody in this sidesplitting and groundbreaking hit series, shown in its entirety—from Amjad’s father who sells a rabbi’s Passover leftovers on Ebay, to his Jewish coworker who presumes every Arab taxi driver is a kidnapper. Writer Sayed Kashua just might be the Arab Israeli incarnation of Woody Allen—and Dave Chapelle.
- Arab Labor: Season 1, Episode 10: “Independence Day”
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In a patriotic publicity stunt, a millionaire promises to give one million shekels to the first Israeli baby born on Independence Day. The race is on for Amjad, the series protagonist, whose very pregnant wife Bushra might just be convinced to push a little harder...
- Arab Labor: Season 2
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They’re baaack! The beloved Alian family returns in season two of this delightfully provocative and wildly popular Israeli sitcom. When father Amjad moves into a Jewish neighborhood, he is mistaken for a terrorist—and an IDF soldier. Watch three new episodes fresh from the editing room and find out why we call series writer and SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award winner Sayed Kashua the Arab Israeli incarnation of Woody Allen and Dave Chapelle.
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They’re baaack! The beloved Alian family returns in season two of this delightfully provocative and wildly popular Israeli sitcom. When father Amjad moves into a Jewish neighborhood, he is mistaken for a terrorist—and an IDF soldier. Watch three new episodes fresh from the editing room and find out why we call series writer and SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award winner Sayed Kashua the Arab Israeli incarnation of Woody Allen and Dave Chapelle.
- Area K
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Between the signing of the Oslo accord in 1991 and the Al Aqsa intifada, a Palestinian fishing clan from Gaza strikes a deal with Israeli settlers to enable the Palestinians to fish in Israeli waters. What follows is an unprecedented story of co-existence through mutual need and the universal language of the sea.
- Army of Crime
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Robert Guédiguian’s lush historical drama bases itself on a largely overlooked cell of French Resistance fighters: refugees of the anti-fascist fight throughout Europe, mostly Jews and communists, led by French Armenian poet Missak Manouchian. With the Gestapo closing in, we are drawn into the work and personal lives of a circle of fearless, brazen and idealistic young men and women, their varying backgrounds insignificant beside a mutual refusal to back down to injustice.
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Robert Guédiguian’s lush historical drama bases itself on a largely overlooked cell of French Resistance fighters: refugees of the anti-fascist fight throughout Europe, mostly Jews and communists, led by French Armenian poet Missak Manouchian. With the Gestapo closing in, we are drawn into the work and personal lives of a circle of fearless, brazen and idealistic young men and women, their varying backgrounds insignificant beside a mutual refusal to back down to injustice.
- Arna's Children
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Arna Mer Khamis, an Israeli Jew, founded a children’s theatre workshop in the West Bank town of Jenin. Under her watchful and encouraging eyes, Palestinian kids discovered their inner playwrights and actors despite the escalating tension in Jenin. Shot over a 13-year period, this film--much like Michael Apted’s 7 Up documentaries--captures the lives of Arna’s children over time while drawing the viewer into their emotional, physical and political development.
- Arranged
- Art of Shimon Attie, The
- Arye
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An epic story of love lost and found. Arye (Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr, renowned from the films of Wajda and Kieslowski) is a Moscow cardiologist who dwells on his boyhood spent hidden in Lithuania during World War II. Diagnosed with cancer, he travels to Israel to find Sonya, with whom he shared first love as well as their attic hiding place.
- As If It Were Yesterday
- As Tears Go By
- Asesino
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ASESINO is about Jews who “disappeared” under Argentina’s former military Junta; of the 30,000 people who disappeared, 3,000 were Jews. The film alleges that Israel, ignoring Argentina’s human rights violations, sold weapons to the Junta. THUNDER IN GUYANA tells the inspiring story of Janet Rosenberg Jagan, a Jewish woman from Chicago who became the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
- Ashkenaz
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Ashkenaz, a pithy but panoramic view of Israel’s “white” Jews, undermines any preconceived notions of Jewish ethnicity. Director Rachel Leah Jones, a Berkeley native, flits from experts and scholars to just plain folks to reveal a nonhomogeneous Ashkenazi population seen through the eyes of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Israelis. It’s a fascinating study in diversity within a single word.
- At Home in Utopia
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“The Coops,” which housed 1,200 pioneering families in cooperative Bronx apartment complexes, symbolized an experiment in justice and equality from 1926 through the 1950s. This affectionate documentary portrays those who embraced communist, socialist and union movements from their “fortress of the working class.” It mixes political, social and economic gravity with humor, contemporary interviews with archival black & white footage, and puts human faces on a history that’s a legacy for many American Jews.
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“The Coops,” which housed 1,200 pioneering families in cooperative Bronx apartment complexes, symbolized an experiment in justice and equality from 1926 through the 1950s. This affectionate documentary portrays those who embraced communist, socialist and union movements from their “fortress of the working class.” It mixes political, social and economic gravity with humor, contemporary interviews with archival black & white footage, and puts human faces on a history that’s a legacy for many American Jews.
- At the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
- At the Green Line
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At the Green Line is a work-in-progress documentary that focuses on the "Refusenik" movement in Israel. The director will return to Israel to expand the film to feature length.
- Au Revoir Les Enfants
- Auschwitz and the Allies
- Autumn in Poland
- Autumn Sun
- Avanim
- Avanti Popolo
- Avital
- Spotlight Series Aviva Kempner
2009 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award 
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Aviva Kempner chronicles tales of Jewish heroism with tenacity, skill and endless passion. Her documentaries are artfully and painstakingly researched; the results celebrate and illuminate little-known stories of Jews who had heart and chutzpah. Aviva Kempner accepted her award following the San Francisco screening of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg on Tuesday, July 28 at the Castro Theatre.
- Aviva My Love
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Aviva (Asi Levi) is a cook with a tough work and family life, but her vivid imagination compels her to write magical stories she hopes to publish. A well-known author wants to help; when his motives become suspect, Aviva must make crucial decisions that pit her family’s interests against her own dreams. Richly shot, Aviva My Love won six Awards of the Israeli Film Academy, including Best Picture.
- Awake Zion
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Have you ever wondered why Jews and Rastafarians share the same Star of David and references to Zion? Awake Zion, featuring a vibrant soundtrack, answers that question and more as it reveals the connections between Jewish and reggae culture.
- Awakening (…bredÈs)
- Baabaa the Sheep Sets Out to Bring Love to the World
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A wondrous real-life fairytale that documents the rise and fall of a kind-hearted and humble young artist’s creation: a sponge-toy sheep named Baabaa that suddenly becomes the craze of Israel.
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A wondrous real-life fairytale that documents the rise and fall of a kind-hearted and humble young artist’s creation: a sponge-toy sheep named Baabaa that suddenly becomes the craze of Israel.
- Babcha
- Baby Doll
- Bachelor Girl
- Backseat Bingo
- Bad Faith
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Clara and Ishmael are gorgeous, happy, in love and in Paris. How nice is that? Like many cosmopolitan Parisian couples, the fact that she is Jewish and he is Muslim barely crosses the minds of these oh-so-secular lovebirds…until Clara announces that she’s pregnant. That’s when the troubles start in this charming and timely romantic comedy whose title could have been “Guess Who’s Coming to Shabbos Dinner?”
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Clara and Ishmael are gorgeous, happy, in love and in Paris. How nice is that? Like many cosmopolitan Parisian couples, the fact that she is Jewish and he is Muslim barely crosses the minds of these oh-so-secular lovebirds…until Clara announces that she’s pregnant. That’s when the troubles start in this charming and timely romantic comedy whose title could have been “Guess Who’s Coming to Shabbos Dinner?”
- Bad Jews in My Kitchen
- Baghdad Bandstand
- Baghdad Twist
- Bait
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Two sisters, a Filipino boy, and a deserted beach.
- Balagan
- Balcony, The
- Barbeque People, The
- Barney's Version
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Barney’s Version is the warm, wise and witty story of the politically incorrect life of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), who meets the love of his life (Rosamund Pike) at his wedding - and she is not the bride. A candid confessional, told from Barney’s point of view, the film spans three decades and two continents, taking us through the different “acts” of his unusual history.
- Bastille
- Be Fruitful and Multiply
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How do ultra-Orthodox women really feel about bearing and raising 10, 12, even 16 children? Be Fruitful and Multiply profiles four women in New York and Israel in a compelling look at the responsibilities and joys of procreation.
- Because of that War
- Bedouin Sand
- Bee Season
- Behind Enemy Lines
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Behind Enemy Lines reunites an Israeli police officer and a Palestinian journalist --once friends -- for an emotional journey through Jerusalem and the landscape of the Intifada.
- Being Jewish in France
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Yves Jeuland’s extraordinary documentary captures two centuries of Jewish life in France. French Jews have always had a complex relationship to their Frenchness and their Judaism. But from revolutionary cries of “Vive la France!” in Yiddish through Vichy’s betrayal of Jewish citizens to the absorption of Mizrahi Jews in the 1960s, French Jews have remained staunchly French. Anti-Semitic violence has caused some French Jews to reexamine living in France, while others view France as their homeland.
- Belzec
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This is a significant new Holocaust documentary about one of the first camps built to exterminate Poland’s Jews. Belzec saw more than 600,000 perish in gas chambers and mass graves, but in 1943 the camp was razed in an effort to hide what had happened. The film’s focus is on one of Belzec’s few survivors, Braha Rauffmann, who as a child had been secreted away in a woodpile by a Polish woman.
- Bena
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This is the gripping story of three fragile souls whose lives intersect at the precarious border between loneliness and desperation. Amos, a widower, hires Bena, an undocumented Thai immigrant, to care for his schizophrenic son Yurik. When both Amos and Yurik begin to fall for her, Bena is caught in a disturbing love triangle between the overbearing father and unstable son. Will she risk imprisonment in Israel to escape their emotional trap?
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This is the gripping story of three fragile souls whose lives intersect at the precarious border between loneliness and desperation. Amos, a widower, hires Bena, an undocumented Thai immigrant, to care for his schizophrenic son Yurik. When both Amos and Yurik begin to fall for her, Bena is caught in a disturbing love triangle between the overbearing father and unstable son. Will she risk imprisonment in Israel to escape their emotional trap?
- Bent Tree, The
- Benya Krik
- Berlin Beshert
- Berlin Jerusalem
- Berlin Lost, A
- Bernie
- Best Man: Best Boy and All of Us Twenty Years Later
- Beton
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A black kite disturbs the everyday life of a military unit that determines to rid the sky of it by any means necessary.
- Between the Lines
- Between Two Notes
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Cairo, Aleppo, Damascus, Beirut, Tel Aviv: in a bitterly divided Middle East, what binds these places together in this lyrical road movie is their deep-rooted connection to classical Arabic music. Paris-based filmmaker Florence Strauss sets out to trace the origins of Arabic music and in the process makes discoveries about her own family’s hidden Jewish heritage. Ancient rhythms and melodies pour forth in passages of musical joy connecting artists across borders.
- Between Two Worlds
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Who speaks for Jews today? In this personal essay, Snitow and Kaufman embark on an intimate, far-ranging exploration of the ideological fissures running through contemporary Jewish life. They turn their camera on recent flashpoints in American Jewish identity, including campus debates over divestment from Israel and the 2009 controversy stemming from SFJFF’s screening of Rachel. The filmmakers ask how each generation reshapes, reclaims or rejects its parents’ definition of community values. Followed by panel in S.F.
- Beyond the Walls
- Bicycle, The
- Bilin My Love (Bil'in Habibti)
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By presenting a unique joint effort of Palestinian and Israeli left-wing activists, this documentary (Wolgin Award for Documentary Film, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2006) captures the struggle for the Palestinian West Bank village of Bilin, threatened by the building of the Wall. Bilin My Love sheds light on little-known aspects of the Middle East conflict; using stunning guerilla aesthetics, the director brings to the screen unique moments of desperation, courage and fear.
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By presenting a unique joint effort of Palestinian and Israeli left-wing activists, this documentary (Wolgin Award for Documentary Film, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2006) captures the struggle for the Palestinian West Bank village of Bilin, threatened by the building of the Wall. Bilin My Love sheds light on little-known aspects of the Middle East conflict; using stunning guerilla aesthetics, the director brings to the screen unique moments of desperation, courage and fear.
- Bin and Jerry's Fundamental Principles
- Biography of a Young Accordion Player
- Birth of a Community: Jews and the Gold Rush
- Birthplace
- Black Israel
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An African worker in a French soccer league in Tel Aviv; a religious student in Jerusalem who traces his heritage to a Hebraic tribe in Nigeria; a Togolese ambassador; and a community of African Americans who run Israel’s first tofu factory are among the people we meet in this unique documentary exploring the intersection of blacks and Jews in Israel and beyond.
- Black Over White
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Black Over White is part road trip, part examination of multiculturalism in Israel, through a close-up look at an Ethiopian concert tour by Israeli-Ethiopian-Yemenite world-beat band The Idan Raichel Project.
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Black Over White is part road trip, part examination of multiculturalism in Israel, through a close-up look at an Ethiopian concert tour by Israeli-Ethiopian-Yemenite world-beat band The Idan Raichel Project.
- Black to the Promised Land
- Blacks and Jews
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A groundbreaking documentary about Black/Jewish relations in America produced by a Black/Jewish filmmaking team, Blacks and Jews goes behind explosive headlines to look at how the media shapes and foments conflict. The film features penetrating interviews with Clayborne Carson, Michael Lerner, Salim Muwakkil, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Cornel West.
- Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
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Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian Jewish resistance fighter, an optimist in the face of dire circumstances and a poet. Roberta Grossman’s first-rate documentary Blessed Is the Match, narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, is a paean to Hannah Senesh’s courage and creativity. This inspirational film features gorgeous images of parachutes floating gracefully in the air, like Senesh’s poem “Blessed Is the Match,” written days before her capture by the Nazis.
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Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian Jewish resistance fighter, an optimist in the face of dire circumstances and a poet. Roberta Grossman’s first-rate documentary Blessed Is the Match, narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, is a paean to Hannah Senesh’s courage and creativity. This inspirational film features gorgeous images of parachutes floating gracefully in the air, like Senesh’s poem “Blessed Is the Match,” written days before her capture by the Nazis.
- Blessings: Roommates in Jerusalem
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BLESSINGS: ROOMMATES IN JERUSALEM is an intimate and heartfelt picture of a decades-long relationship between two remarkable, developmentally challenged women: Shulamit Cohen, 74, and Ilana Blumenfeld, 66. In MY FOUR CHILDREN, Nelly Portuges, a mother who has suffered the loss of two of her own four children, raises four foster children with Down’s syndrome with love and compassion.
- Blood of Abel (see Red), The
- Blood Relation
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When her grandmother dies, Jewish Israeli filmmaker Noa Ben Hagai discovers a packet of carefully preserved letters from a woman named Pnina, her grandmother’s sister, who had left home one day in 1940 at age 14 and never returned. She reemerged 27 years later, a mother of eight living in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus. Baffled by the silence shrouding her great-aunt’s existence and curious to hear stories about her unfathomable journey, Ben Hagai interviews her uncles and aunts, as well as neighbors who grew up alongside Pnina and her siblings in the agricultural village of Yavniel. Did Pnina run away to convert to Islam after striking up a friendship with the family maid? Was she kidnapped by an Arab vegetable merchant who offered her a ride and later married her? Or did her parents expel Pnina after she became pregnant by Yavniel’s golden boy, who refused to marry her? As this exceptionally powerful story unfolds, Ben Hagai’s quest to uncover the truth stirs up painful, unsettling memories and emotions—and shines a harsh light on seven decades of Israeli-Palestinian relations that have seen little in the way of progress and far too much in the way of deterioration. —Hagar Scher
- Bloomers
- Blue and White in Red Square
- Blue Vinyl
- Blues by the Beach
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When Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem chose to make a documentary about Mike’s Place, an Anglo-American blues club on a Tel Aviv beach, they figured the boozy international hangout would show a side of Israel different from the all-too-familiar images of terrorism and conflict. But when Mike’s Place is bombed in a suicide attack, their film turns into an unexpectedly vivid account of coping with daily life in the wake of violence.
- Boat Is Full, The
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It is 1942. A ragtag group of Jewish refugees escaping from a German train stumbles upon a place of sanctuary and hope -- a farmhouse just across the Swiss border. Their desperate plight, and the shifts of fate brought about by their hosts’ denunciation and sudden repentance, creates one of the most powerful and indelible depictions of the moral price of war. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this 1981 Swiss drama has been nearly absent from American theaters for two decades.
- Bobby Fischer Against the World
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Liz Garbus’s outstanding doc takes us on Fischer’s journey from Jewish child prodigy to world chess master to virulent anti-Semite. Centering on his famous 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky, the film plays out like a taut Cold War drama. More than a career biography of the man considered by many to be the greatest chess player ever, this is a complex, fascinating study of genius and madness joined at the hip.
- Body and Soul
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The quintessential boxing classic. Jewish boxer Charlie Davis (John Garfield in an Oscar-nominated performance) has fought his way out of poverty to become middleweight champion. But the corrupt world of professional boxing and his own lust for money and fame have nearly destroyed everything he has worked for. In Abraham Polonsky’s riveting screenplay, Charlie must choose between redemption and self-destruction. —Mike Silver
- Book of Days
- Borders
- Boxer and Death, The
- Braesheet
- Bread
- Bread
- Breaking Upwards
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BREAKING UPWARDS explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up.
- Brian Epstein Story, The
- Bridge of Books, A
- Bridge Over the Wadi
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Bridge Over the Wadi documents a rocky year in the life of an Arab-Jewish primary school, a brave experiment in education that strives towards understanding and compromise. The film celebrates the political will of citizens who believe they must be the change they seek.
- Brighton Beach
- Broken Lines
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In this dark and erotic drama set in multicultural North London, Jake and B’s carnal affair provides a welcome escape from their troubled relationships, as despair gives way to freedom. Written by co-stars Dan Fredenburgh and Doraly Rosa, and directed with eloquent precision by Sallie Aprahamian, Broken Lines shows sparks of hope and passion igniting even in suffering souls, as they navigate life and the surprises that come with it.
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In this dark and erotic drama set in multicultural North London, Jake and B’s carnal affair provides a welcome escape from their troubled relationships, as despair gives way to freedom. Written by co-stars Dan Fredenburgh and Doraly Rosa, and directed with eloquent precision by Sallie Aprahamian, Broken Lines shows sparks of hope and passion igniting even in suffering souls, as they navigate life and the surprises that come with it.
- Broken Promise
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A rare and superb entry from Slovakia into the genre of Holocaust drama, Broken Promise is based on the true story of teenager Martin Friedman’s unlikely escapes from deportation during the war. From work camp to Catholic infirmary to an underground stint with the Partisans, Martin manages to win deliverance through both chance and the aid of sympathizers. The film explores collective and individual anti-Semitism among invaders and liberators alike.
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A rare and superb entry from Slovakia into the genre of Holocaust drama, Broken Promise is based on the true story of teenager Martin Friedman’s unlikely escapes from deportation during the war. From work camp to Catholic infirmary to an underground stint with the Partisans, Martin manages to win deliverance through both chance and the aid of sympathizers. The film explores collective and individual anti-Semitism among invaders and liberators alike.
- Broken Time
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Daniel, a withdrawn 11-year-old boy, lives under his mother's strict supervision. Every afternoon he waits alone for her to return from work at 3 pm. One day, a strong explosion is heard throughout the city. As the hours pass and his mother fails to appear, Daniel's repressed anxiety leads him to an action that will change his life.
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Daniel, a withdrawn 11-year-old boy, lives under his mother's strict supervision. Every afternoon he waits alone for her to return from work at 3 pm. One day, a strong explosion is heard throughout the city. As the hours pass and his mother fails to appear, Daniel's repressed anxiety leads him to an action that will change his life.
- Brooklyn: Among the Ruins
- Brother Born Again
- Brownsville Black and White
- Brussels Transit
- Bubbeh Lee and Me
- Bubble, The
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Eytan Fox (Walk on Water, Yossi and Jagger) continues his extraordinary run of sleek, chic films that define the contradictions of modern Israeli life. A trio of charming gay and straight twenty-somethings share a flat in a hip Tel Aviv district. But the carefree “bubble” they live in threatens to burst when one of them falls in love with a young Palestinian man.
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When Palestinian Ayed Morrar learned the Israeli security barrier would veer from the border separating Israel and the Palestinian territories, and would instead cut through his West Bank village, he decided to organize, galvanizing both Palestinians and Israelis in an effective strategy of nonviolent protest. This groundbreaking documentary neither romanticizes nor demonizes the many viewpoints it reveals, instead capturing with raw intensity the power of ordinary people fighting peaceably for change.
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When Palestinian Ayed Morrar learned the Israeli security barrier would veer from the border separating Israel and the Palestinian territories, and would instead cut through his West Bank village, he decided to organize, galvanizing both Palestinians and Israelis in an effective strategy of nonviolent protest. This groundbreaking documentary neither romanticizes nor demonizes the many viewpoints it reveals, instead capturing with raw intensity the power of ordinary people fighting peaceably for change.
- Bugsy
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Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel has a dream—or is it a mirage?—of a casino named the Flamingo rising out of the Nevada desert. What Siegel doesn’t gamble on are construction delays or falling in love, and he falls hard for actress Virginia Hill (played to perfection by Annette Bening). Warren Beatty’s tour de force performance as the sexy, psychotic New York gangster shines among excellent turns by Ben Kingsley and Harvey Keitel.
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It's a bit unusual that Sheldon wants to join a Chevrah Kadisha (burial society), but the group decides to give him a chance. THE BURIAL SOCIETY is a quirky, well-woven murder mystery complete with Jewish Mafia thugs, devious detectives, and nervous breakdowns. Not the average backdrop for a seriocomic, caper movie, the Chevrah Kedisha imbues this offbeat Jewish noir with unique gravity.
- Burning Lands
- Burning Memory
- Bus Stop
- Bye Bye America
- Café Au Lait
- Cafeteria, The
- Cage, The
- Campfire
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Best Picture, 2004 Israeli Academy Awards. Rachel, a recently widowed mother of two rebellious teenage girls, hopes to start a new life by joining a religious settlement in the West Bank. But she must first win over the community’s leader, who is threatened by her independence. A nuanced, moving drama.
- Campus Battleground
- Cancer in Two Voices
- Cantor on Trial, A
- Cantor's Tale, A
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A loving tribute to a Golden Age in American Jewish life when chazzanut--the celebrated cantorial art--reached its zenith. Renowned cantors made best-selling recordings and attracted followers who would travel miles to hear them. The film follows the journey of Jack Mendelson, a Brooklyn-born son of a deli owner, who today trains future cantors in the nearly lost traditions of Eastern European sacred music.
- Caravan 841
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Moshe, an Ethiopian immigrant boy, lives in a temporary refugee camp where he anxiously waits to be reunited with his mother. He is torn between the adults in his life: Aharon, the strict but caring Orthodox teacher who tells him to trust in God, and his new friend Walter, a saxophone player who teaches him to trust in himself. preceded by PEPE'S WATCH
- Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years
- Carpatia
- Casting
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Meet a vital group of octogenarians who gather weekly in the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. For over two decades, the group has engaged in deliberations on art, politics, philosophy, the foundation of the state of Israel, Israeli-Palestinian relations, poetry and love. Tali Shemesh’s mesmerizing documentary provides an unforgettable view of a generation that survived the worst and dreamed of a new beginning for themselves and the generations to come.
- Century of the Self
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This landmark four-hour BBC documentary, shown here over two evenings, examines with a critical eye the profound impact of Freud’s ideas of the self on 20th-century consumer and political culture. The Freud dynasty--Sigmund, American nephew Edward Bernays (inventor of modern public relations), daughter Anna and great-grandson Matthew (contemporary marketing mogul)--occupy the center of this brilliant analysis linking Freud’s notions of unconscious desire to current American advertising, political rhetoric and popular culture.
- Century Village Shiddach
- Channels of Rage
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The high-voltage rivalry of two talented, politically charged rap artists: the nationalist Israeli hip-hopper Subliminal and his onetime friend and protйgй, Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar. Shot over three years, this energizing documentary charts their rise, friendship and growing acrimony as they stake out ideological territory through breathtaking raps.
- Chants of Sand and Stars
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Chazzanut, the music that accompanies Jewish liturgy, is as rich and varied as the cultures of the Diaspora. From the desert sands of Judea to the steppes of Central Asia to the neighborhoods of Manhattan, through Medieval Spain and Renaissance Venice, Chants of Sand and Stars features beautiful and ethereal melodies.
- Charlotte
- Chasing Shadows
- Chasing the Grail
- Checkpoint
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There are now more than 200 roadblocks in Israel created to protect the country from suicide bombers entering from the West Bank and Gaza. This heralded veritй film turns a compassionate, unblinking eye onto the daily dramas that unfold at the checkpoints—with both soldiers and civilians portrayed as reluctant players in a no-win game.
- Cherries in the Snow
- Chicks in White Satin
- Children of #67, The
- China Blue
- Chosen Ones, The
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Wendla Nцlle travels to Manhattan in search of the face of young Jewish music and serves up a sampler of a hip new generation who display an overwhelming variety, freshness, humor, intensity and talent. Among the artists profiled are an Orthodox-convert rapper, a blues musician who sings cantorial chants against African beats, and an Orthodox rabbi whose quirky songs deal with weighty subjects.
- Chosen, The
- Chronicle of a Jump
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To jump or not to jump . . . Director Zohar Lavi examines the borders of fear and courage in this sweet and creative film.
- Chronicle of a Kidnap
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On July 12, 2006, IDF soldier Ehud Goldwasser was kidnapped by Hezbollah, an event that triggered the second Lebanon war. This is the story of the families left behind and their struggle to bring their loved ones home, told with the deft hand and keen eye of documentarian Nurit Kedar (Wasted, SFJFF 2007).
- Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman
- Chronicles of a Disappearance
- Cinemasports [program]
- Circumcision
- Close to Home [2005]
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Our Centerpiece screening, Close to Home, is an army buddy movie--but these buddies happen to be young women Israeli soldiers. A unique view on the female experience of military service at a time of heightened security concerns, it’s also a well-crafted coming-of-age tale about friendship between two opposites. Smadar, the quintessential bad girl, is boy-crazy and a recreational shoplifter to boot. Mirit is the goody two-shoes who tries to be the perfect soldier so she can be transferred and not posted "close to home." Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager’s new feature transcends politics and borders with the strength of its storytelling and the universality of its characters.
- Close, Closed, Closure
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CLOSE, CLOSED, CLOSURE, shot before and after the outbreak of the Al Aqsa intifada, presents border crossings, border closings and the violence and tension that infuse daily life there. IT IS NO DREAM documents the will for peace and justice within modern Israel. Packed with the testimonies of Israeli activists and commentators, the film presents a vibrant, diverse dialogue. Preceded by SECURITY GROOVE
- The Clown and the Fuhrer
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Year round screening: A riveting drama about an encounter between Spain's most famous clown and Europe's most infamous dictator.
- Cock Fight
- Coffee with Lemon
- Cohen on the Telephone
- Collector of Bedford Street, The
- Commissar
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What draws Jews to utopian communities? From socialist farms in the early Soviet days to kibbutzim and moshavim, Jews have often been attracted to communal living. Jonathan Berman’s engaging documentary explores one of the boldest such experiments: the Black Bear Ranch in Siskiyou County, California. Featuring Black Bear members Harriet Beinfeld, Peter Coyote, Geba Greenberg, Efrem Korngold, Elsa Marley and Osha Neumann, among others, Commune is an elegantly crafted testament to people who dared to dream of a world remade.
- Complaints
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With remarkable insight and a healthy dose of levity, Deborah Hoffmann chronicles the various stages of her mother's Alzheimer's disease as well as the evolution of her own response to this illness. This Academy Award- nominated film explores the mysteries of memory and the fierce and complex facets of a daughter's love.
- Comrade Stalin's Trip to Africa
- Concert Yiddish Soul
- Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology
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The kaleidoscope of clips and mind boggling animation in this wide-ranging documentary are so entertaining one could happily watch it with the sound off. But it would be a shame to miss Tiffany Shlain’s meditations on modern life and technology. The Bay Area–based filmmaker delves into everything from the honeybee crisis to her household’s weekly “technology shabbat” to her father’s struggle with brain cancer, all in an effort to understand our need to connect.
- Conspiracy and the Dybbuk, The
- Count the Lenins on My Back
- Cours Toujours (Dad on the Run)
- Crime After Crime
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Bay Area filmmaker Yoav Potash’s documentary is the shattering chronicle of Deborah Peagler, an African American woman from Los Angeles sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her part in the 1983 murder of her horribly abusive boyfriend. Nearly two decades into her term, a new California law was passed granting domestic violence survivors like Peagler the opportunity to have their cases reopened. Rallying to her cause are two idealistic pro bono attorneys—Nadia Costa, a marathon runner, and Joshua Safran, an Orthodox Jew—who are convinced that suppressed evidence could free Peagler in a matter of months. Over the next five years, Potash’s camera captures in unflinching detail the legal battles waged amid a labyrinth of injustice and sheer corruption. Despite the near obsessive work of her lawyers, growing media attention and even the support of her dead boyfriend’s family, Peagler remained behind bars even after she was diagnosed with cancer. Potash’s film is not only a testament to the unbreakable spirit of Peagler and her attorneys but a call for reexamining the cases of hundreds of thousands of women wrongly imprisoned across the United States. Crime After Crime is a staggering experience that will leave every viewer pondering the very meaning of justice. —Thomas Logoreci Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2011 DIRECTOR Yoav Potash and SUBJECT Joshua Safran in person.
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Critic, The
- Cross Inscribed in the Star of David, The
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THE CROSS INSCRIBED IN THE STAR OF DAVID tells the compelling story of Father Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel and the search for his identity. Already ordained a priest for twelve years, Father Weksler-Waszkinel learns on his 35th birthday that he is a Jew saved from the ghetto of Swieciany by his foster parents. In this man's unusual destiny, the Judaic and Christian traditions naturally fuse, a fact seemingly beyond belief.
- Crossing Delancey
- Cup Final
- Current Events
- Cycles
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Cyril Gelblat uses a light hand to sketch a “sandwich” generation crisis: Cycles shows the special nature of middle age for the children of French Holocaust survivors, as a sister (Miou-Miou) and brother (Charles Berling) watch their mother (Shulamit Adar) slip into an unfathomable world of memories at the same time as their children are slipping effortlessly into adulthood. In marvelous performances, the absurdity of their situation tempers any threat of pathos.
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Cyril Gelblat uses a light hand to sketch a “sandwich” generation crisis: Cycles shows the special nature of middle age for the children of French Holocaust survivors, as a sister (Miou-Miou) and brother (Charles Berling) watch their mother (Shulamit Adar) slip into an unfathomable world of memories at the same time as their children are slipping effortlessly into adulthood. In marvelous performances, the absurdity of their situation tempers any threat of pathos.
- Dancing Alfonso
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a pitch-perfect portrait of a vital widower who finds a physical practice that sustains him, and community and creativity in the rhythms and movement of flamenco.
- Dancing With My Father
- Danube Exodus, The
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The Danube Exodus is a gripping journey into the lives of WWII refugees, as filmed by the captain of a Danube cruise ship.
- Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story
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An inspiring portrait of South Africa’s outrageous, controversial and brilliant political satirist (and occasional drag entertainer) Pieter-Dirk Uys, a half-Jewish, half-Afrikaaner anti-apartheid activist and performer. The film follows Uys’s latest theatrical activism against “the new apartheid”: his country’s failure to educate schoolchildren about HIV/AIDS.
- Daughters of Abraham
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Daughters of Abraham: These teenagers looked so alike they could have been sisters -- instead, one was a Palestinian suicide bomber, the other her Israeli Jewish victim. A portrait of two lives on a fateful collision course.
- David
- Day in October, A
- Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell, A
- Deadly Currents
- Deaf Heaven
- Dealers Among Dealers
- Death and the Compass
- Defamation
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Israeli director Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint, Five Days) explores the ways contemporary Jews learn and think about anti-Semitism, both real and perceived. Spending time with the Anti-Defamation League’s crusading director Abe Foxman, and with Israeli teens at Auschwitz who assume “everybody hates the Jews,” Shamir worries about the future of the Jewish soul in an atmosphere of persecution. But while he is willing to poke a stick at a sacred cow, he’s too nuanced a filmmaker to let ideology trump thought. A daring documentary.
- Delicatessen Kid, The
- Delta Jews
- The Demon Bridegroom
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A young woman preparing for her wedding encounters a mysterious stranger.
- Deportation
- Der Soldat
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In deceptively naive black-and-white line drawings, animator Max Cohen (Tale of the Goat, SFJFF 2005) limns a wordless soldier’s tale-- a haunting miniature that is equal parts Beckett and Kafka.
- Description of a Memory
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Chris Marker’s landmark documentary about Israel, Description of a Struggle, thoroughly examined, critiqued and predicted the newly created state’s past, present and future. Nearly 50 years later, director Dan Geva looks to answer many of the questions originally raised by Marker as he attempts to track down the people featured in Marker’s film, with surprising and emotionally complex results, in Description of a Memory.
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Chris Marker’s landmark documentary about Israel, Description of a Struggle, thoroughly examined, critiqued and predicted the newly created state’s past, present and future. Nearly 50 years later, director Dan Geva looks to answer many of the questions originally raised by Marker as he attempts to track down the people featured in Marker’s film, with surprising and emotionally complex results, in Description of a Memory.
- Description of a Struggle
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Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival, Chris Marker’s landmark documentary about Israel, Description of a Struggle, thoroughly examined, critiqued and predicted the newly created state’s past, present and future.
- Desert Brides
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In Desert Brides (Best Film, Doc Aviv Festival 2008) a wedding photographer’s lens offers a portal to women’s struggles with polygamy. Ushpiz’s outstanding film explores the realities of becoming a first wife or second wife in Bedouin culture. With the state pressure on nomadic cultures to integrate into Israeli society, a third of Bedouin women live in polygamous households fueled by a relentless drive back to religion for minority survival.
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In Desert Brides (Best Film, Doc Aviv Festival 2008) a wedding photographer’s lens offers a portal to women’s struggles with polygamy. Ushpiz’s outstanding film explores the realities of becoming a first wife or second wife in Bedouin culture. With the state pressure on nomadic cultures to integrate into Israeli society, a third of Bedouin women live in polygamous households fueled by a relentless drive back to religion for minority survival.
- Deserter's Wife, The
- Desperado Square
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DETAINED is a documentary about three Palestinian widows from Hebron. Their home is caught between two cultures; the facade is under Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority controls the back. THE SETTLERS gains unprecedented access to the orthodox Jewish women settlers of Tel Romeida (in Hebron), who are stalwart in their belief in the Jews’ divine right to this land.
- Diamonds in the Snow
- Diaries of Yossef Nachmani, The
- Different War, A
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Nuni, a fourth-grade student, has been chosen to play the warrior King David in a school play. But deep down he longs to play a different role....
- Diogenes: Ansar 3
- Disparus
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Passion, art, and politics fuel this fascinating Parisian drama that moves back and forth in time as a woman tries to solve the mysterious disappearance of Alfred Katz. Katz- working man, Trotskyite, and poet- arrives in Paris in the late '30s and quickly gets caught up in events far beyond his comprehension and control. As Stalin settles scores inside Russia and assassinates Trotskyites abroad, Katz begins a passionate affair with Mila, Surrealist artist Man Ray's favorite nude model. The stellar cast includes Anouk Grinberg, Xavier Beauvois and Gregoire Colin as Alfred Katz.
- Divan
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- Divine Food
- Docteur Szlovak
- Doda Diya
- Dogs: The Rise and Fall Of An All-girl Bookie Joint
- Don't Tell Santa You're Jewish!
- Don't Touch My Holocaust
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A young soldier returns home for a weekend with friends and family after having committed an act of violence while on duty that will make him doubt the values and ideas on which he was raised.
- Dough Nuts
- Dr. John Haney Sessions, The
- Draft
- Dream
- Dunera Boys, The
- Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field, The
- Dybbuk, The
- Dybbuks and Chicken Soup
- Each Other
- East and West
- East Endings
- Echo Soup
- Echoes of a Conflict
- Eclipse
- Eddie King
- Eichmann's End: Love, Betrayal, Death
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"Historical reenactments combine with interviews and documentary footage to bring to life the unknown back-story behind Adolf Eichmann’s capture in Argentina in 1960. Set mostly in 1950s Buenos Aires, where Jewish refugees and unrepentant Nazis both harbor dreams of revenge and vindication, the film chronicles how an improbable romance between the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and one of Eichmann’s sons led to Eichmann’s eventual capture."
- Eight Men Out
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Screenwriter and director John Sayles knocks it out of the park with this drama about the intersection between baseball and the shadowy world of organized crime.
- Ein Stehaufmannchen
- Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades
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Michael Prazan’s shattering documentary meticulously details the killing squads charged with destroying entire Jewish populations in occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades recreates this terrifying period when “good and evil were reversed” with previously unseen archival footage, much of it in color, shot as home movies by the Germans themselves. Prazan’s mosaic of pure hate has a startling immediacy that moves well beyond simple historical document.
- El Cantor
- Ellis Island
- Ellis Island Tales
- Embrace Me
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EMBRACE ME presents Israeli singer Jo Amar, a liturgical poet, singer and composer whose voice embodies the longing and beautiful rhythmic dissonance of Mizrahi music. The film follows Amar on a trip back to Morocco, delving into the roots of Mizrahi music. In TAQASIM, Israeli musician Felix Mizrahi returns to his native Cairo, including the old Jewish quarter, instrument workshops and music archives.
- Embroidered Canticles
- Emigrant, The
