Exhibitions. And we really felt that in celebration of our 35th an verse industry year, it was time for a little anniversary year, it was time for a little reinjection. Its now the umbrella name for the Media Arts Organization that brings it to San Francisco. So 35 years,. What are some of the sub themes. I know every year you have a freedom of expression award far director. So fill us in for a director. So fill us in. This is actually arame wonderful year for our 35th anniversary and we have some new things. One of our new things is weve added the new local spotlight. And unbelievably, the star of the local spotlight is the one of the cofounders of the jewish Film Festival janice plot kin is coming with her new film that she spruced called produced called plastic man. And jerry barish was one of the first donors to the jewish Film Festival. Of barish bail bonds who also makes wonderful art out of plastic. Thats something new thats happening this year. Beautiful. And every year you hav
Have a terrific Opening Night, and we have 10 big nights in the festival, and 68 dams from 15 different countries. 68 films from 15 different countries, and i think the stars were shining on us saying we would celebrate our 36th festival with fun and levity. Lets set up a clip for the Opening Night film. It is the 10th of men and directed by Daniel Berman who is heads temple films at the festival in the past, joining us in person at the castro theater on july 21. This is a romantic comedy about a man that returns home to help out his father, and he has a Jewish Charity that he runs in the jewish district. The 10th man. [ video playing ] i know that the Film Festival has the Opening Night, closing night in between this freedom of expression, and what is the closing film and the freedom of expression . For the love of spot made about Leonard Nimoy made by his son, adam. Is a tribute to his father, and also a father and son story, and great clips of his entire career, and talking about hi
The 43rd SF Jewish Film Festival will run July 20-August 6 at the Castro Theatre, Vogue Theatre, and the Piedmont Theatre in Oakland. Here are the notable LGBTQ-themed narrative, short and documentary selections.