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"Shari & Lamb Chop" is the opening night selection of this year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Courtesy SFJFF)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival 2024: New venues, new voices and a guest festival director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 3, 2024July 12, 2024

J. is a media sponsor of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. See full festival coverage here. It’s a summer of “newness” for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, according […]

A scene from "SHTTL," which will be screened at both the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival and the Jewish Film Institute's WinterFest.
Posted inCulture

East Bay Jewish film fest and JFI’s WinterFest bring dozens of movies to Bay Area

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 14, 2023January 29, 2024
Ondi Timoner and her father Eli Timoner in "Last Flight Home," Ondi's film about Eli's assisted suicide. (Photo/MTV Documentary Films)
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‘Last Flight Home’: A Jewish family helps their father end his life in new documentary

by Andrew Lapin and JTA October 14, 2022October 18, 2022
"Charlotte," an animated WWII film about a German Jewish painter voiced by Keira Knightley, will screen as part of the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival.
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Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival to feature stories of love, war and restitution

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi October 12, 2022October 20, 2022
The 2022 East Bay  International Jewish Film Festival will include a teens-only, socially distanced, in-person screening of “The Raft,” a hit Israeli coming-of-age story.
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East Bay Jewish film fest aims to elevate virtual cinematic experience

by Michael Fox March 7, 2022March 7, 2022
Stephen Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the 2018 Arthur Miller Foundation Honors at City Winery in New York City, Oct. 22, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Mike Coppola-Getty Images)
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Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
A still from "Kiss Me Kosher," which is streaming as part of the Sonoma Israeli Film Festival.
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It’s Year 2 online for Sonoma JCC’s annual Israel film fest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 5, 2021
From the poster for "Stranger/Sister," which will be streaming as part of the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival.
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Array of genres, countries in Sacramento Jewish film fest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 24, 2021
Alessandro Gassmann (right) in “Thou Shalt Not Hate.”
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WinterFest brings new Jewish cinema home for a long weekend

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 18, 2021
Naian González Norvind (left) and Christian Vázquez in "Leona." (Photo/Courtesy Fosforescente-Menemsha Films-Diana Garay)
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Indie drama ‘Leona’ uses a forbidden romance to critique Mexico City’s Orthodox community

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA February 12, 2021February 12, 2021

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