San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
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Nadav Schirman, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, and the Amazing Story of ‘The Green Prince’
A Palestinian and son of a Hamas leader, Mosab Hassan Yousef was raised deeply entrenched in the Middle...
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Mysterious Jigsaw Puzzles Inspired Steve Mims’ New Indie, ‘Arlo and Julie’
Playing at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival tomorrow night at the California Theater in Berkeley, Austin-based filmmaker Steve Mims’ Arlo...
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Wasabi Roe On a Bagel?! Julie Cohen Says It’s Delicious, Tells Us Where We Can Find It
For 100 years, Russ & Daughters has been serving delicious smoked fish to New Yorkers from its original...
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The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow
The most renowned Jewish film festival in the world, the 34th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, kicks off...
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Sam Berns, Subject of ‘Life According to Sam’, Dies at 17
Life According to Sam subject Sam Berns, 17, died on Friday in Boston, Massachusetts, reports The New York...
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The Zigzag Kid (SFJFF Review)
When I was a kid, movies like Beauty and the Beast, The Sandlot, Toy Story, and Star Wars...
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Out in the Dark (SFJFF Review)
A raw and sensuous tale of forbidden love across a cavernous sociopolitical divide (the Israeli-Palestinian divide, to be...
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Interview: Ziad Doueiri of The Attack
Writer-director Ziad Doueiri’s new film, The Attack (which I highly recommend), incurred a tidal wave of Arab anger...
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The Attack (SFJFF Review)
Though set in the trenches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ziad Doueiri’s mystery-thriller The Attack operates predominantly on an...
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Rue Mandar (SFJFF Review)
Following the death of their beloved family matriarch, two sisters (Sandrine Kiberlain and Emmanuelle Devos), their brother (Richard...
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The Cutoff Man (SFJFF Review)
Set in a sun-toasted Israel, first-timer Idan Hubel’s The Cutoff Man is a patiently reflective tale of an...
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Red Flag (SFJFF Review)
Alex Karpovsky (most famously known for his work in Lena Dunham’s Girls and Tiny Furniture) plays an (assumedly) extra-neurotic version...
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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Coverage Introduction
Tonight marks the kick-off of the 33rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and with the fest’s advancing age...