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Director Spotlight: Oxygen
Director Spotlight: Oxygen
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.
Sada
Sada
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.
Director Spotlight: Shooting
Director Spotlight: Shooting
Through three gripping true stories—a military reenactment that displaces an entire village, a staged police raid on a Palestinian family, and a tormented military props supplier—Netalie Braun probes the dangerous intersection of storytelling, propaganda, and state power in Israeli society.
Shorts: Documentaries
Shorts: Documentaries
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.
Shorts: From the Bay
Shorts: From the Bay
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.
Shorts: Narratives
Shorts: Narratives
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.
Shorts: The Power of the Pen
Shorts: The Power of the Pen
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.
The Soundman
The Soundman
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.
Sun Bay
Sun Bay
Shadowed by the grand hotels of Eilat lies a hidden trailer park known as Sun Bay. Against the uncertainty surrounding the site, its residents attempt to reconcile the tension between their present loneliness and the lives they left behind.
We Met at Grossinger's
We Met at Grossinger's
An immersive journey through the vibrant history of the Grossinger's Resort Hotel, a landmark of the Catskills—known as the Borscht Belt—that played a pivotal role in shaping Jewish American identity and culture.
The Wedding Entertainer (or The Tale of Moishe Badhan)
The Wedding Entertainer (or The Tale of Moishe Badhan)
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.
What Was She Thinking
What Was She Thinking
Four close friends—proudly child-free women—take on every question the world throws at them with honesty, humor, and zero apologies.

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