SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | SFJFF 2010

July 24-August 9 | 866-558-4253

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Browse through the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival's current and archival films and media here. Use the search tools at left to search by director, title, country, year or tag, or to explore films from the festival's archive, 1981 - present.

Showing: Upcoming Films & Archive Films, Searching in Title. Search tag "Food"

Holidaze
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2008 | USA | Director: Doria Charlson, Andrew Herwitz, Karni Zemel | Languages: English

This triptych of stories from SFJFF’s New Jewish Filmmaking Project, produced by Citizen Film, delivers candid, funny observations of do-it-yourself holiday rituals. Teenage co-directors consider the mysterious relevance of ritual in secular, multicultural lives.

Not Another Jewish Movie
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2002 | Israel, USA | Director: NJFP, Myles Campbell, Lee Goldin, Adam Hirsch, Kyle Lebell, Jennifer Reynolds, Laura Salazar, Daniel Seeman, Max Staley, Jonah Van Bourg, Julieanna Vinogradsky, David Wegbreit, Timna Zemel | Languages: English, w/Eng. Subtitles

A quirky chorus of teenagers grapple with ambivalent feelings about being Jewish and a sense of uneasiness about participating in mainstream American life.

A Shabbos Mother
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2005 | Israel, USA | Director: Inbar Namdar

Three very different sisters gather at their mother's for Shabbat.

Shtetl That's No Longer There, A
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2004 | Netherlands, USA | Director: Heddy Honigmann | Languages: Spanish, w/Eng. Subtitles

In A Shtetl That’s No Longer There, the documentarian Heddy Honigmann introduces us to her mother and her family’s recipe for vrennekes.

Yelena's Story
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2005 | USA | Director: NJFP, Ed Barona-Brenner, Lauren Brown, Tyler Colyer, Hallie Forman, Adam Liss, Klaira Markenzon, Rachel Roller, Yelena Shuster, Sophie Topolsky | Languages: English, Russian, w/Eng. Subtitles

Seventeen-year-old Yelena Shuster negotiates two worlds: her own and her grandparents'.