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With variety and verve, these documentary shorts leverage creative animation, collage, photography, stop motion, and hard hitting interviews to explore pressing issues in contemporary culture as well as local and global histories.

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Shadowed by the grand hotels of Eilat lies a hidden trailer park known as Sun Bay. Against the uncertainty surrounding the site, its residents attempt to reconcile the tension between their present loneliness and the lives they left behind.

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Anat, a schoolteacher, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.

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Through three gripping true stories—a military reenactment that displaces an entire village, a staged police raid on a Palestinian family, and a tormented military props supplier—Netalie Braun probes the dangerous intersection of storytelling, propaganda, and state power in Israeli society.

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Guided by her grandmother’s unmarked photographs, an American college student journeys through Romania, searching for the village her family once called home.

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Human Theories is a comedy comprised of interconnected scenes showcasing offbeat, amusing, failed attempts at connection in modern city life. 

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Pushing the boundaries of sound and image, drummer Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) presents a one-of-a-kind experimental collaboration with Bay Area-based video artist Annie Albagli, developed only for SFJFF46.

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After his fiancée’s death, Benny is pulled into an escalating series of crimes with his polarizing best friend, racing towards Mexico as violence, betrayal, and his past close in with no way out.

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