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Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
A widow fights powerful corporations to reclaim her late husband’s famous Sea-Monkeys toy empire while protecting its secret formula and confronting the complex history behind its creation.
Blue Marks
Blue Marks
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.
Local Spotlight: Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie
Local Spotlight: Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie
From the dust storms of Oklahoma to the lox and bagels of Coney Island, discover a whole new side of Woody Guthrie that will forever change your view of one of America’s most celebrated songwriters and cultural icons.
Far From Maine
Far From Maine
As if speaking to a childhood Palestinian friend killed by Israeli police in 2000, an Arab-Jewish Israeli filmmaker meditates on lifelong personal grief, collective trauma, and Israel-Palestine today. 
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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.
Freedom of Expression Award: Rachel Bloom
Freedom of Expression Award: Rachel Bloom
This year’s Freedom of Expression Award honors the multi-hyphenate artist Rachel Bloom. She will receive the Award at the Castro Theatre in conjunction with the documentary "Hollywood Does Abortion," which she appears in and Executive Produced.
Centerpiece Documentary: Holofiction
Centerpiece Documentary: Holofiction
This experimental film explores the visual representation of the Holocaust through a montage of thousands of excerpts from film and television from 1938 to the present to critically examine how Holocaust imagery has been codified and reproduced in cinema across decades.
Human Theories
Human Theories
Human Theories is a comedy comprised of interconnected scenes showcasing offbeat, amusing, failed attempts at connection in modern city life. 
Landscapes of Memory
Landscapes of Memory
While living and working in Germany, filmmaker Leah Galant reckons with family trauma and the the historical memory of the Holocaust. Stories of a Holocaust-survivor descendant, a Nazi-descendant historian, exiled Palestinian artists, and her father living with ALS reveal the uses and abuses of memory culture.
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
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.
Looking for Yadida
Looking for Yadida
Memory, loss, and the quest for truth are central to this hidden story of Mizrahi babies who vanished from Israeli hospitals in the 1950s, explored through rare testimonies and revelations.
The Mad Dog of Europe
The Mad Dog of Europe
This film uncovers the little-known story of how Herman J. Mankiewicz’s film project—warning of the dangers of Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s—was thwarted by censorship and Nazi influence within the Hollywood system.

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