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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 "Local"
- 'Specially Wonderful Affair, A
- Four Short Films about Love
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These documentary vignettes provide a rare window on coming of age. As we prepare to make our own way in the world, what draws us closer to the people we love? What pulls us apart?
- Gambling Mensch
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A startling discovery about a beloved grandfather leads to an inquiry into addiction and redemption.
- Grrly Show
- Spotlight Series Half-Remembered Stories
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A Zombie Day of Atonement. A great-grandmother’s infidelities. An escape from czech nationalists on the road to manchuria. On the way to creating a new future, young Jewish storytellers are rediscovering their past.
Video-surprises on the theme Half-Remembered Stories are being presented in all SFJFF theater venues.
For the full, digital experience, visit www.njfp.org
Can a half-remembered story become a whole truth? See for yourself!
This program of the SFJFF is produced by Citizen Film.
- Holidaze
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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.
- Home on the Range, A
- I Like It a Lot
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Principal cast: the director’s two-year-old, Ella; a chocolate ice cream cone; and a clean white shirt.
- If Streets Could Talk
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A young filmmaker takes three generations of relatives back to their former neighborhoods in San Francisco. She asks: how does where you lived shape who you are?
- Jericho's Echo
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Liz Nord’s documentary deftly shows that Israeli punk is political. This dynamic film will inhabit your ears and mind like a bass line that pounds into your consciousness and stays with you for days. The bands featured share a struggle for freedom in a country where religious laws, mandatory military service and national conflict hang over their daily lives. From mosh pits in dark clubs to intimate rehearsal sessions, Israeli punks use words and chords to decry the status quo.
- King of the Jews
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The figure of Jesus terrified Jewish filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt as a boy. King of the Jews is a brilliant and sometimes campy reflection on the powerful image of the Savior.
- Klaira's Story
- Lalo's Jerusalem
- Memory Paths
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Currently, physics does not allow for time travel to the past or future. But you travel back in time every day. Memory Paths is a web module designed to mimic involuntary memory. Memory Paths includes 36 short videos, inspired by thinkers ranging from Maimonides to Albert Einstein.
- My Olympic Summer
- Not Another Jewish Movie
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A quirky chorus of teenagers grapple with ambivalent feelings about being Jewish and a sense of uneasiness about participating in mainstream American life.
- Phantom Limb
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Silence shrouded the death of filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt’s little brother four decades ago; Phantom Limb is his haunting and healing meditation on postponed grief.
- Potchki Press
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A young filmmaker quizzes ordinary Americans about Yiddish words, and he documents his own stumbling attempts to learn Yiddish phrases.
- Professional Revolutionary: The Life of Saul Wellman
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An admiring, unsentimental portrait of a Brooklyn boy who became a mensch: the legendary socialist, labor organizer, Spanish Civil War vet and tireless activist Saul Wellman.
- Shalom Ireland
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This fascinating film tells the story of the Irish Jews, highlighting the problem of maintaining Jewish community in Diaspora. The little-known history of Irish Jewry begins in the Middle Ages, but the modern Jewish community has its roots in the flight from pogroms in Eastern Europe around the turn of the century. preceded by THE LAST JEWISH TOWN
- Song of a Jewish Cowboy
- Tangled Roots
- Tsipa and Volf
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- Unforgettable Face
- Urban Doodles
- Yelena's Story
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Seventeen-year-old Yelena Shuster negotiates two worlds: her own and her grandparents'.
