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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 "Unaffiliated Jews"
- Abe's Manhood
- Bad Jews in My Kitchen
- 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.
- 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.
- Delta Jews
- 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?
- Front, The
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A classic better appreciated decades after its release, The Front is a comedy about a deadly serious subject. Woody Allen portrays a somewhat naпve front for a trio of blacklisted television writers; Zero Mostel, in a role based partly on his own story, plays a Blacklist victim who cannot betray his Jewishness. Walter Bernstein got a much-deserved Oscar® nomination for Best Screenplay.
- Good Uplift, A
- 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.
- 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.
- In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story
- Isn't This a Time!
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On Thanksgiving weekend 2003, thousands descended on Carnegie Hall for a tribute concert to Harold Leventhal, the son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants who became the legendary impresario of the American folk music revival. With the intimate feel of a family reunion, Isn’t This a Time! vividly captures this historic concert and Leventhal’s own passion for social justice, with performances by Arlo Guthrie, the Weavers, Peter, Paul and Mary and Theodore Bikel.
- Jew in the Lotus, The
- Jewish Item
- Jews and Buddhism: Belief Amended, Faith Revealed
- Klaira's Story
- Lalo's Jerusalem
- Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The
- Life Apart: Hasidism in America, A
- Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
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What is it that makes funny Jewish women so funny…and so Jewish? Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women is a laugh-out-loud, impeccably researched documentary that explores six legendary American Jewish women comics. Director Rachel Talbot has created a tribute to Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein and Gilda Radner, whose comedy defied cultural expectations and changed the rules. Get ready to duck when the zingers fly and guffaw at this humor-filled, insightful documentary. Our wacky guides on this comedic journey are four of today’s leading Jewish comedians: Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney and Jessica Kirson.
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What is it that makes funny Jewish women so funny…and so Jewish? Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women is a laugh-out-loud, impeccably researched documentary that explores six legendary American Jewish women comics. Director Rachel Talbot has created a tribute to Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein and Gilda Radner, whose comedy defied cultural expectations and changed the rules. Get ready to duck when the zingers fly and guffaw at this humor-filled, insightful documentary. Our wacky guides on this comedic journey are four of today’s leading Jewish comedians: Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney and Jessica Kirson.
- Man is Woman
- 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 Life Part 2
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Angelika Levi’s poetic film reveals the complicated life of her mother, Ursula, a woman of mixed Jewish/German heritage who survived Nazi rule. Recordings of her mother and interviews with her father create a powerful look at how information and myths are passed along in this portrait of a family whose story is both its own universe and a microcosm of European history.
- My Mother's Courage
- Nick and Rachel
- 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.
- Return of Sarah's Daughters, The
- Soul Keeper, The
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Sabina Spielrein was the first patient with whom Dr. Carl Jung attempted the talking cure, a method learned from his mentor Sigmund Freud. Spielrein later became a psychoanalyst, making contributions to the field of child psychiatry. Roberto Faenza’s rich and compelling narrative brings Spielrein and Jung to life through the considerable chemistry of actors Emilia Fox (The Pianist) and Iain Glen.
- Specialist, The
- Still (Stille)
- Survival in Sarajevo: How a Jewish Community Came to the Aid of Its City
- Thunder In Guyana
- Yelena's Story
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Seventeen-year-old Yelena Shuster negotiates two worlds: her own and her grandparents'.
