Welcome to the 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Hello, dear friends, and welcome to the Jewish Film Institute’s 46th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival! Our team and our artists are eager to gather, watch, kibbitz, nosh, laugh, and think together in our theaters throughout the Bay Area. In a moment where your attention is precious, it means a great deal that you turn towards SFJFF46 with eyes wide open and take a seat. We are quite proud of what we have put together for you this summer and are humbled by your trust in us as good stewards of this storied, boundary-breaking festival.
Our refreshed JFI logo speaks to the depth and dimensionality that guide our mission to expand and evolve the Jewish story. The throughlines that you see throughout this year’s Festival graphic design stem from the way we have approached our curatorial work this year. These strands remind us of our connectedness in time and space that is at once elastic and unending. As we wrap this new festival around ourselves, our hope is that it feels like both divergence and reconciliation.
Let us be reminded of the properties of well-woven tapestries. No two strands operate in the same exact way; they bisect each other, go through and around each other, but always—ultimately and only—bind us together. There is no straight line through artistry, story, and identity, a complexity which this year’s Festival makes perfectly clear. Over the course of these eighteen days of discovery and dialogue, we look forward to traveling with you from world to world, screen to screen, from perspective to ever-shifting perspective. Whichever line you take, or thread you follow, we hope you enjoy the journey.
Ash Cook
Festival Director
Dominique Oneil
Director of Programming
Lexi Leban
Executive Director