Don't miss the twenty short films in this year's program, each of which tells a big story.
With variety and verve, these documentary shorts leverage creative animation, collage, photography, stop motion, and hard hitting interviews to explore pressing issues in contemporary culture as well as local and global histories.
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These witty, incisive, and erudite shorts highlight the skillful play and poise of writers taking up arms with pen and paper in a world where words have never been more weaponized.
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From cacophonous seders to maternity photoshoots, step into the imaginative visions of these filmmakers whose fictional shorts showcase the heartfelt and hilarious truths of the human condition.
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This collection of shorts hits close to home. Join Bay Area filmmaking legends and JFI alumni to celebrate the stories, histories, lives, and new works of these hometown heroes.
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Photographer Jeff Cohen uncovers 21 portraits shot in San Francisco 50 years ago and embarks on a poignant journey to reconnect with, and re-photograph, his aging subjects.
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Through a series of conversations I filmed before October 7, 2023, my octogenarian father shares with me his trajectory from working class Orthodox kid in Brooklyn to how his sense of belonging to Judaism has eroded because of Israel.
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Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider’s view of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Queer photographer Jill Posener’s fearless compulsion to document provides us with intimate views of radical feminist London, Bay Area 90s lesbian culture, and contemporary unhoused East Bay communities. A lifelong rebel, she has always felt “at odds”, and now contemplates where she may fit for her final chapter.
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A stoner buddy-dramedy between a Jewish grandmother and her trans grandchild on a day trip to Cape Cod during the off-season.
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A fun-loving Jewish woman who straightens her hair to fit in, until a rainy Christmas party forces her to grapple with who she really is.
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A group of young, sophisticated Jewish New Yorkers will have their ideals tested when an unexpected guest crashes their Passover Seder.
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In a small apartment in Haifa, an elderly couple’s quiet routine unfolds into a tender portrait of love, change, and the passage of time.
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A Grain of Truth is a personal film that examines the power of storytelling to shape collective memory. Through a disturbing journey into wartime Denmark, the film dismantles a cherished national myth—the Legend of the Yellow Star—revealing a far more complex history, one that holds acts of remarkable courage alongside troubling moral compromises.
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Investigating the mechanisms at the heart of cinema and animation, an Israeli animator seeks to convince her mind to embrace the illusion of hope, just as it embraces the illusion of movement.
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Conservative Shiri hires Lidor, a liberal trans woman, for her maternity photo shoot. When Shiri’s husband leaves them alone together, they explore questions together about their changing bodies and identities.
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Saba is a metaphorical animated short film, about life, our journey and the endless effort to get closure with the meaningful people in our life.
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Exploring the perspectives of New Yorkers on both sides of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York, this film reveals a fierce battle among American Jews over identity, history, and responsibility.
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Lulu takes a job as a nanny only to discover that her new boss isn’t who she expected.
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A French filmmaker uses family photos and archival images to send a message to her long-deceased grandmother in an attempt to establish her own path toward healing.
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Finally in 2007, Jen Taylor Friedman became the first woman known in history to scribe a Torah. Meet Taylor Friedman and fellow trailblazing scribe Rabbi Linda Motzkin, who creates kosher parchment in her backyard.
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The New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly talks, draws, and laughs with some of the most celebrated and groundbreaking cartoonists at the iconic magazine as they reflect on the essential work of women cartoonists today and over the last century.
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A personal essay about a self-questioning, tenacious American Jew who sets out to find a crush he saw only in a magazine fifty years ago, while wrestling with his evolving relationship to Israel.
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