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WinterFest

Director Claude Lanzmann approaches Treblinka, Poland, in 1978. (Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inTV & Film

WinterFest returns in S.F. with Oscar nominee ‘The Sea’ and a look back at ‘Shoah’

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 9, 2026February 9, 2026

WinterFest, the one-weekend counterpart to the summertime San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, seeks to offer audiences a respite, according to the Jewish Film Institute. “We invite the entire Bay Area […]

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
Israeli actress Dana Ivgy as Rona, who leads a film workshop for Jewish and Arab women in "Cinema Sabaya."
Posted inCulture

WinterFest presents films on Joyce Carol Oates, “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Tree of Life attack and more

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 24, 2022February 24, 2022
Philippe Tlokinski as Stan Ulam in "Adventures of a Mathematician."
Posted inFilm

Ethics and science and the Manhattan Project in ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ 

by Michael Fox February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
Alessandro Gassmann (right) in “Thou Shalt Not Hate.”
Posted inCulture

WinterFest brings new Jewish cinema home for a long weekend

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 18, 2021
George Soros in the documentary “Soros.” (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inTV & Film

George Soros: Philanthropist? Financier? Evil genius? New film tells the full story

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 24, 2020
Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halev) torches a poster of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in “Incitement.”
Posted inTV & Film

Israeli film ‘Incitement’ revisits dark days around Rabin’s assassination

by Tom Tugend and JTA February 18, 2020February 28, 2020
Cantor Jack Mendelson in "A Cantor's Head"
Posted inJew in the Pew

A master of synagogue music finds his style and career fading in touching documentary

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 14, 2020August 17, 2021
Still from the docuentary "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life," playing at Jewish Film Institute's WinterFest.
Posted inTV & Film

Big issues and controversial personalities star in S.F. Jewish film fest’s WinterFest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 11, 2020February 12, 2020
a man and woman hold their faces close together, gazing into each other's eyes
Posted inFilm

Personal reinvention goes tragically awry in ‘A Fortunate Man’

by Michael Fox February 14, 2019February 15, 2019

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