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BEDLAM is a feature-length documentary that addresses the national crisis and criminalization of the mentally ill, its connection between hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans and our nation’s disastrous approach to caring for its psychiatric patients.
Digging through his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the story of his boyhood and recalls the abuse he suffered through.
In November 2016, a nasty election cycle had exposed a seismic cultural rift, and the country suddenly felt like a much different place. For underground cartoonist Matt Furie, that sensation was even more surreal. Furie’s comic creation Pepe the Frog, conceived more than a decade earlier as a laid-back humanoid amphibian, had unwittingly become a grotesque political pawn.
Aviva Kempner’s Rosenwald (SFJFF35) is the incredible story of Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who never finished high school, but rose to become the President of Sears. Influenced by writings of the educator Booker T. Washington, this philanthropist joined forces with African American communities during the Jim Crow South to build over 5,300 schools during the early part of the 20th century.
This is the story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third generation, breaking the cycle of trauma to free themselves from Auschwitz - forever.
9TH CIRCUIT COWBOY is the story of a true mensch. Judge Harry Pregerson served on California's famously liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for almost half a century and was known for placing his personal scruples over what he discounted as abstract legalities. Not Geoblocked.
A FATHER'S KADDISH tells the story of how Steven Branfman used the art of pottery to help him work through his grief after the death of his 23-year-old son. The film is a potent and moving journey through the universal experience of loss, mourning and rebuilding a life.
Based on the autobiography by Polish-Jewish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN follows Ulam’s dramatic journey to the United States in the 1930s where he plays a vital role in The Manhattan Project in the creation of the hydrogen bomb while desperately trying to help his sister flee Nazi occupied Poland. Not Geoblocked.
Shira Haas (Unorthodox) delivers an unforgettable performance as a teenager suffering from a deteriorating illness that brings her closer to her single mother in this powerful drama that is Israel’s Foreign Language Oscar Entry for 2020. Geoblocked to SF Bay Area.
Based on a true story, two young Slovak Jews manage to escape Auschwitz with a detailed report about the atrocities they witnessed first hand, only to find their account might not be so ready to be believed. Slovakia’s Foreign Language Oscar Entry for 2020. Not Geoblocked.