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 "Watch Online"

Four Short Films about Love
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2003 | USA | Director: NJFP, Maxwell Andrews, Rachel Barnett, Alex Baum, Maissa Chouraki, David Cohen, Hannah Lesser, Tamara Rosenfeld, Max Stanley, Sophia Teper, Leah Whitman-Salkin | Languages: English

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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2010 | USA | Director: Jason Zaveleta | Languages: English

A startling discovery about a beloved grandfather leads to an inquiry into addiction and redemption.

Spotlight Series Half-Remembered Stories
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2010 | USA | Director: Sam Ball | Languages: English

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.

If Streets Could Talk
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2010 | USA | Director: Samantha Abernathey | Languages: English

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?

Memory Paths
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2010 | USA | Director: Zoe Pollak | Languages: English

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.

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.

Potchki Press
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2010 | USA | Director: Corey Abraham | Languages: English

A young filmmaker quizzes ordinary Americans about Yiddish words, and he documents his own stumbling attempts to learn Yiddish phrases.

A Trip to Prague
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2006 | USA | Director: Neil Needleman | Languages: English

Does everyone need to meet a nice Jewish girl? With striking illustrations and deadpan narration, this film relates a funny anecdote about the Jewish instinct to make a shiddach (fix-up).