These narrative features shed light on the drama, comedy, and everything in between of Jewish life around the world.
A young Israeli woman moves to Paris to study fashion. After a chance encounter turns into rape, she faces an unwanted child and seeks revenge against the man who killed her dreams.
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When Nate moves in with his grandparents after a bad breakup with his boyfriend, the two generations' life experiences, values, and philosophies collide in exasperating, funny, and heartbreaking ways.
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Avigail returns home from army service to the Jerusalem apartment she shares with her dysfunctional mother and her younger sister. She hopes to untie the chains of childhood and lose her virginity over the weekend, but things take a sharp turn.
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In Amy Heckerling's 1982 classic, a group of Southern California high school students navigate the ups and downs of adolescence, part-time jobs, and emerging sexuality over the course of one school year.
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A guarded teenager leaves Brooklyn for the first time to spend the summer with her estranged father, a struggling composer in Los Angeles. What starts as an awkward reunion turns into something deeper, forcing them to confront old wounds and rebuild what they’ve lost.
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After a nervous breakdown, a young office assistant flees to his parents’ house in Arizona and hires an escort to take care of him.
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Human Theories is a comedy comprised of interconnected scenes showcasing offbeat, amusing, failed attempts at connection in modern city life.
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It’s 1984 in suburban New York and Julie Gornick is hosting a charismatic, larger-than-life Spanish exchange student. As he starts hooking up with the girls in her class, Julie falls in love with him. Or what she thinks is love.
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A strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother, Nino, as a baby.
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When a trio of estranged childhood friends receive devastating news, they reunite for one night in the Brooklyn of their youth, where they are haunted by their younger selves, who demand that the past come achingly into the present.
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Anat, a schoolteacher, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.
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Set at a Brussels radio station on the eve of the 1940 German invasion, this tragicomic story of the intertwined destinies of a youthful sound engineer and a talented Jewish actress affirms the human capacity for invention.
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In the 1980s, as pop music soars and AIDS spreads, 12-year-old Boaz discovers a shattering truth about his beloved father. Over the years, he struggles to mend their fractured relationship and restore their lost connection. Moshe Rosenthal ("Karaoke," SFJFF42 Opening Night) crafts a delicate, deeply human coming-of-age story.
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A Palestinian Uber driver and a lost young Israeli cross paths during a series of taxi rides through Berlin, leading to unexpected moments that blend humor and heartache as their journeys unfold.
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After his fiancée’s death, Benny is pulled into an escalating series of crimes with his polarizing best friend, racing towards Mexico as violence, betrayal, and his past close in with no way out.
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Assaf inherits a house from a father he never knew. When he invites Miriam—a homeless woman living in the backyard—inside, a quiet battle begins that will change both him and the house forever.
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In this rhythmic psychological thriller, a lonely aspiring teen actress finds herself drawn to an acting teacher who pulls her into a web of desire and control, blurring the lines of seduction and obsession.
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To get the funds to marry off his own child, a disgraced Hasidic wedding-comedian must fight to reclaim his former glory in Gidi Dar’s hilarious caper.
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An Arab-Israeli kindergarten teacher defies expectations after her husband’s death by taking over the family coffee factory. Facing a conservative family, patriarchy, racism, and crime, she is determined to succeed and carve a new path.
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Join us at the Piedmont Theater on the final day of SFJFF46 (Sunday, August 2) for a day of reprise screenings of Festival Award winners, including the winner of the Audience Award: Narrative Feature. Tickets are $10 until Friday, July 31 when the winners are announced.
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Join us at the Piedmont Theater on the final day of SFJFF46 (Sunday, August 2) for a day of reprise screenings of Festival Award Winners, including the winner of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award. Tickets are $10 until Friday, July 31 when the winners are announced.
Read MoreNOTE: All Festival Passes will exclusively be available as a benefit to JFI members at the Patron level and above.
The best way to explore SFJFF46 in style, the All Festival Pass gives you priority admission to every moment at every venue, including Big Nights and any additional ticketed events. Not only do members at the Patron+ levels receive All Festival Passes, but they also receive invitations to awards-season screenings, special events, and more throughout the year.
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