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Bad Faith
She's Jewish, he's Muslim, they're having a baby - and that's when the troubles start in this charming romantic comedy from France. Preceded by A Kiss Is a Kiss Is a Kiss.
Bubble, The
Eytan Fox (Walk on Water, Yossi and Jagger) continues his extraordinary run of sleek, chic films that define the contradictions of modern Israeli life. A trio of charming gay and straight twenty-somethings share a flat in a hip Tel Aviv district. But the carefree "bubble" they live in threatens to burst when one of them falls in love with a young Palestinian man.
Chosen Ones, The
Wendla Nolle travels to Manhattan in search of the face of young Jewish music and serves up a sampler of this hip new generation.
Giraffe, The
In this sexy, taut thriller by SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award winner Dani Levy, a mysterious death links two generations of families in Germany and America.
Just an Ordinary Jew
A journalist in Hamburg wrestles with the contradictions of being a Jew in modern Germany in this tour-de-force monologue from the director of Downfall.
So Long Are You Young
The unusual story of Samuel Ullman, a Jewish merchant from the deep South, and his remarkable poem, "Youth," which inspired a generation of postwar Japanese. Preceded by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow's Ezekiel's Wheels.
Sweet Mud
One of the year's most acclaimed international dramas: A 12-year-old boy must care for his emotionally fragile mother on an Israeli kibbutz, learning poignant lessons about thwarted love and human failings. Winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize.