For over 20 years, the San Antonio Jewish Film Festival has brought people together to enjoy the best and brightest in Jewish cinema. The Jewish Film Festival provides a moment for our community to come together to laugh, cry and cheer all in the name of Jewish film.

Schedule:

Thursday, February 9, 2023

7:00pm: Where Life Begins

Directed by Stephane Freiss | Italian, French | 100min |Country: Italy

An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi's daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way. Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time.   

7:00pm: Pops (Short)

Directed by Lewis Rose | English | 19 min | Country: UK

Pops is a comedy drama about a feud that breaks out between two siblings over their late Jewish father's eccentric last request-to have his ashes sent to space.   

Saturday, February 11, 2023

7:00pm: Perfect Strangers

Directed by Lior Ashkenazi | Hebrew | 90 min | Country: Israel

7 Childhood friends meet up for dinner on the night of an eclipse. During which they play a game where whatever call, text and message they get on their phone must be shared with everyone and soon discover, no one is who they say they are.   

Thursday, February 16, 2023

7:00pm: Farewell Mr. Haffmann

Director by Fred Cavaye | French | 116 min | Country: France

Occupied Paris, 1941: all members of the Jewish community are instructed to come forward and identify themselves to authorities. Dedicated jewller Joseph Haffmann, fearing the worst, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers his employee Francois Mercier the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides. But his own attempts to escape are thwarted, and Haffmann is forced to seek his assistant's protection.

Saturday, February 18, 2023

7:00pm: The Replacement

Directed by Oscar Aibar | Spanish | 115 min | Country: Spain

A young hardened police officer finds himself in the middle of the murder of the inspector he is now supposed to replace at a small sea town.   

Sunday, February 19, 2023

2:00pm: Lost Transport

Directed by Saskia Diesing | German | 98 min | Country: Netherlands/Luxembourg/Germany

In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie, and Jewish-dutch woman Simone.   

4:00pm: March '68

Directed by Krzysztof Lang | Polish | 117 min | Country: Poland

Warsaw 1968. Students are protesting against the unlawful expulsion of their colleagues from the university and in defense of the "Dziady" (Forefather's Day) poster, directed by Kazimierz Dejmek, and staged at the National Theater. Hania and Janek are also among the protesting youth. Their families are on both sides of the March barricade. Young and madly in love with each other, like in Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet, in a country overwhelmed with rebellion, they fight for their attraction. Will their love survive? Will they be able to overcome the adversities that fate presents them?  

7:00pm: Only In Theaters

Directed by Raphael Sbarge | English | 91 min | Country: USA

Laemmle Theatres, the beloved 84- year-old arthouse cinema chain in Los Angeles, is facing seismic change and financial pressure. Yet the family behind this multigenerational business- whole sole mission has been to support the art of film-is determined to survive.

Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 - Sunday, February 19, 2023

Location: Barshop JCC - 12500 NW Military Hwy. San Antonio, TX 78231

Tickets:

Single ticket online : $12  
Single ticket at door: $15

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