Pre-Festival Warehouse Party
Jews in Shorts
Try these shorts on for size! Get a taste of what this year's Fest has to offer and join us for a sneak peek of many of this year's short films from local and international filmmakers, followed by DJ, drinks and dancing.
Friday July 13
Doors Open | 7:30pm
Short Film Screening | 8:30pm
DJ | 10:00pm
Balazo 18 Art Gallery
2183 Mission St (at 18th Street) [Map]
San Francisco
Tickets available at the door | $10
The special program of short films to be shown this year includes:
I'm Charlie Chaplin
Jay Rosenblatt (2005 SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award winner) is back with a delightful look at his daughter Ella's favorite Halloween character.
Kiss is a Kiss is a Kiss
Three of the unlikeliest screen kisses and one draw.
Jonathan
Jonathan tells the story of a little boy who wants to dress up as the Little Mermaid for Purim, and you wouldn't think you could care so much about whether or not he gets to fulfill his dream.
Quintuplets
Chosen from among the short films in I AM YOU ARE, the product of an award-winning youth media program created to bring together Palestinian and Israeli teenagers from the Jerusalem area in order to help break down the walls of misunderstanding that exist between them. Quintuplets brims with the energy of five new lives.
Orders of Love
Jes Benstock (Holocaust Tourist, SFJFF 2006) returns with a graphically innovative exploration of his family tree.
Tolya
From Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School comes this sweet and funny drama about a toothless immigrant calling home to offer a romantic greeting to his wife.
Naturalized
A young Russian Jewish man in New York decides to get circumcised, causing every member of his secular family to express an opinion.