Schedule

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Venues
  • JCCSF
  • Piedmont Theatre
  • Roxie Theater
Festival Sections
  • Big Nights
  • Documentary Features
  • JFI Supported
  • Narrative Features
  • Next Wave
July 27, 2026

Centerpiece Documentary: Holofiction

Austria Germany English
July 27
Piedmont Theatre
5133, 4186 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611
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This experimental film explores the visual representation of the Holocaust through a montage of thousands of excerpts from film and television from 1938 to the present to critically examine how Holocaust imagery has been codified and reproduced in cinema across decades.

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Only Good Feelings

USA English
July 27
Piedmont Theatre
5133, 4186 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611
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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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Director Spotlight: Oxygen

Israel Hebrew
July 27
Piedmont Theatre
5133, 4186 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611
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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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Director Spotlight: Shooting

Israel Arabic Hebrew
July 27
Piedmont Theatre
5133, 4186 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611
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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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