2023 marked an inflection point in Israel and Palestine when it comes to issues of democracy, free speech, occupation, and hope for a shared future, and filmmakers are responding. SFJFF43 is highlighting the stories of Israelis, Palestinians, and American Jews grappling with their relationship to the Jewish State.
Celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am shares his vast archive of 500,000 photos and his reflections on the psychological and personal toll of bearing witness to multiple wars.
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When Palestinian teenager Tamer is smitten by Maysaa’, the new girl at school, his eyes are simultaneously opened by love and by his political awakening.
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A harrowing, bird’s-eye view of the shooting that claimed four lives at the popular Sarona Market in Tel Aviv through the lens of closed-circuit security cameras, punctuated with interviews from those who were there that fateful day.unaware of the political upheaval amid which they will soon find themselves.
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In this hilarious, action-packed parody that lampoons disaster movies, when a mysterious virus spreads throughout Israel, a wealthy British journalist, and his Israeli girlfriend become desperate to escape the country.
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The storied West Bank city of Hebron is a microcosm of the conflict where both Jews and Muslims believe their common father Abraham is buried in the Holy Cave of the Patriarchs.
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Featuring interviews with prominent thinkers like Jeremy Ben Ami, Noam Chomsky and Cornel West, this political documentary captures the complex and sensitive relationship between Jewish-American identity and support for the state of Israel.
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From the pen of politically astute Palestinian Israeli writer Sayed Kashua (Arab Labor, The Writer) comes Madrasa, a fast-paced comic TV series set at the Peace School for Bilingual Education in Jerusalem.
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An emotionally stirring account of the interconnected fates of three people and their families drawn together by a single senseless act in the unceasing cycle of violence that typifies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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An engrossing hybrid film from the perspective of a forgotten heroine. Taken as hostage, Kochava Levy volunteers to mediate between the PLO and the IDF, but her bravery becomes overshadowed by her personal life.
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