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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 "Terrorism"
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Facing the Wind
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Facing the Wind is the story of 13-year-old Oran, who lost his eyesight and five members of his family in a terrorist attack. Despite his blindness, Oran is going to make his dream come true and keep on sailing.
- God On Our Side
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Picasso’s monumental anti-war painting Guernica inspired animators Michal Pfeffer and Uri Kranot to create this succinct and despairing portrait of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Graphically searing, it is a powerful statement on this futile, never-ending cycle of violence.
- Hot House
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Nearly 10,000 Palestinians are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis regard these “security prisoners” as criminals but to the Palestinians they are freedom fighters, and martyrs. Granted extraordinary access to the highest-security institutions, filmmaker Shimon Dotan uncovers a startling truth: Israeli prisons have become a breeding ground for the next generation of Palestinian leaders and a hotbed for terrorist plots. —David Courier.
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Nearly 10,000 Palestinians are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis regard these “security prisoners” as criminals but to the Palestinians they are freedom fighters, and martyrs. Granted extraordinary access to the highest-security institutions, filmmaker Shimon Dotan uncovers a startling truth: Israeli prisons have become a breeding ground for the next generation of Palestinian leaders and a hotbed for terrorist plots. —David Courier.
- Massacre
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A shattering documentary bringing together the silhouetted testimonies of six Lebanese perpetrators of the notorious 1982 massacres at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in southern Lebanon, then under Israeli occupation. The film considers the nature of collective violence in a century that brought us Treblinka, My Lai, Rwanda and, now, Darfur.
- Protocols of Zion
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Since 9/11, an alarming upsurge of anti-Semitic sentiment in the United States and around the world repeats claims that Jews seek world domination--a theory propagated by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a century-old tract that, despite being discredited as a libelous forgery, is still widely available and cited. Veteran documentarian Marc Levin takes a personal odyssey to investigate the persistence of what Elie Wiesel calls "the oldest collective bigotry in history."
- Seven Minutes in Heaven
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Ranging from the hyperrealistic to the fantastical, this powerful neo-noir mystery follows Galia, a young Israeli who struggles to remember the terrorist bus bombing that took her boyfriend’s life, leaving her body—and her psyche—severely scarred. An unfamiliar necklace, a patient and handsome stranger named Boaz (Eldad Fribas) and the newfound knowledge that she was pronounced dead for seven minutes all might help her unlock the key to her past.
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Ranging from the hyperrealistic to the fantastical, this powerful neo-noir mystery follows Galia, a young Israeli who struggles to remember the terrorist bus bombing that took her boyfriend’s life, leaving her body—and her psyche—severely scarred. An unfamiliar necklace, a patient and handsome stranger named Boaz (Eldad Fribas) and the newfound knowledge that she was pronounced dead for seven minutes all might help her unlock the key to her past.
- Wall
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Simone Bitton’s Sundance award-winning Wall explores the physical and psychological dimensions of the barrier being built to divide Israel and the Palestinian territories. Bitton, a Mizrahi Jew, interviews Israelis and Palestinians who live and work close to the wall; all are affected by the rupture it creates in the landscape. Bitton’s painterly cinematography and restrained pacing allow her subjects to speak for themselves.
- Zero Degrees of Separation
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Ezra and Selim are gay lovers caught within the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Edit and Samira, a lesbian couple, are also negotiating the intricate dance of relationships between Jews and Palestinians. These couples cross cultural boundaries with dignity and profound love. Elle Flanders weaves their stories with her family’s 1950s sun-drenched home movies of Israel and quiet observations of the conflict today, creating a unique feeling of dissonance.
