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42nd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Jul 22 - Aug 07, 2022
Also available virtually via the Jewish Film Institute Digital Screening Room.
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The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF), presented by the Jewish Film Institute, is the largest and longest-running festival of its kind and a leader in the curation and presentation of new film and media exploring the complexity of Jewish life and identity around the world. SFJFF showcases more than sixty films each year for thousands of in-person and online audience members and industry professionals, curating a bold, expansive slate of dramatic and documentary features, episodic programs, and experimental, and animated projects that reflect life through a Jewish lens. Since its founding in 1980, SFJFF has cultivated and championed emerging and established filmmakers throughout their careers, helping to launch new artistic voices on a national and international scale.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Docs are a strong suit here. Take “Speer Goes to Hollywood,” about Hitler confidante and architect, Albert Speer who, despite exploiting 12 million slave laborers, burnished a reputation as a “good Nazi.” Vanessa Lapa’s expose zeroes in on his efforts, in 1971, to turn his memoir,” “Inside the Third Reich,” into a feature film. Blending archival footage with performances by Christine Lahti and Andrea Riseborough, “My Name is Andrea” tells the story of the revolutionary feminist and gadfly, Andrea Dworkin.
Sura Wood
Contributing Writer, Film
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