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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival – Best of SFJFF Online Shorts

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Every month, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival features a new full-length short film, available to view online for free. This international selection of best online shorts includes comedies and documentaries.   THE TAILOR Dir. Gordon Grinberg United States, 2011, 6 min, English Culture and confusion meet on a Brooklyn street in this hilariously charming tale […]

Movie Night | A Jewish Girl In Shanghai (China 2010)

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

A Jewish Girl in Shanghai Dir. Wang Genfa | China | 2010 | 85min. The film, based upon the popular graphic novel by Wu Lin, is the first Chinese animated film to portray the Holocaust. Artfully created with traditional animated imagery, the film offers a glance of Shanghai's Little Vienna – the neighborhood where around […]

Movie Night | Tinghir Jerusalem, Echoes from the Mellah (Israel 2011)

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Tinghir Jerusalem, Echoes from the Mellah Dir. Kamal Hachkar | France, Morocco, Israel | 2011 | 86min. The film traces Kamal Hachkar's rediscovery of a Judeo-Berber culture in Morocco through a personal journey that leads him from the country of his birth, France, to Israel and Tinghir. Introduced by Professor Emily Gottreich, Vice Chair of […]

Emma Goldman Papers Project Reception

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Reception to honor the publication of the third in the four-volume series, Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years- 1890-1919 (Stanford University Press, November 2012).  Readings from the work of the eloquent advocate of universal social justice.

Movie Night | Life? Or Theatre? (Netherlands/Germany/USA/France 2012)

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

LIFE? OR THEATRE? Dir. Frans Weisz | Netherlands, Germany, USA, France | 2012 | 85min. In this documentary, Dutch filmmaker Frans Weisz traces the life of Charlotte Salomon, a German Jewish painter who defied the Nazi regime as a teenager by staying in Berlin and attending art school until 1938, when she was sent to […]

Pell Lecture: Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Lisa Gossels and Peter Gossels

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

"THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES" A film by Lisa Gossels and Dean Wetherell April 7th, 2013 at 3pm Event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Jewish Studies, Berkeley Hillel, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of […]

Movie Night | My So-Called Enemy

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Spanning a seven-year period, “My So-Called Enemy” follows six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls committed to justice and mutual understanding as the conflict continues to rage in their homeland, after participating in a women’s leadership program in the U.S. called Building Bridges for Peace.  This heart and mind-opening film documents how the young women’s transformative experience, of knowing […]

SFJFF Film Screening with special guest Anna Halprin

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

World-renowned modern dancer Anna Halprin will introduce two short films realted to dance in Israel. Inside Envelopes (2012) 50 min, Dir. Shelly King This documentary tells the story of two dancer sisters and two musician brothers who come together to create a performance piece. Offering a glimpse into their creative process, replete with fiery arguments and […]

SFJFF Film Screening

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Portrait of Wally (2012, 90 min, Dir. Andrew Shea)   Screening with screenwriter/producer David D’Arcy   The film traces the history of Egon Schiele’s iconic 1912 painting from its origins as a gesture of affection toward his young lover to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi to its  surprise resurfacing when it turns up […]

Reflections on the Legacy of Nuremberg: the 70th Anniversary of The Nuremberg Trials

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Program Schedule: 5:30 pm Reception 6:15 - 7:00 pm Film Screening – Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today 7:00 - 8:00 pm Q & A with Sandra Schulberg, filmmaker and producer, and Richard Buxbaum, Professor of Law, UCBerkeley School of Law ______________________________________________________________________________________________ This conference is a two-day event with multiple locations and programs.  For event details, […]

Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen | Toledo: El Secreto Oculto, Israel, 2008, 90 min.

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Toledo: El Secreto Oculto Dir. Jack Matitiahu, Documentary. Israel, 2008. 70 min. The city of Toledo was famous for its rich cultural and historical heritage; a city in which three major cultures met, intertwined and enriched each other. The movie Toledo - the Hidden Secret is a meeting of the past and the present and […]

Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen | Saved by Language, USA, 2014, 53 min.

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Saved by Language Dir. Susanna Zaraysky and Bryan Kirschen. Documentary. USA, 2014. 53 min.   Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian colonel who helped him escape to […]