Relive the 20th Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the festival program, browse photos, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 2015 Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
Dates: March 14 – 22
Venues: AMC Pacific Place 11, SIFF Cinema at Uptown, Stroum JCC
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Full Lineup Details
Films Screened
• A Borrowed Identity (AKA Dancing Arabs) – dir. Eran Riklis, 2014, France, Germany, Israel
• Above and Beyond: The Birth of the Israeli Air Force – dir. Roberta Grossman, 2014, USA
• Accidental Activist: Whoever Saves a Life – dir. Cameron Levin, 2015, USA
• Almost Friends – dir. Nitzan Ofir, Barak Heymann, 2014, Israel
• Bulletproof Stockings – dir. Sarah Berkovich, 2014, USA
• David Broza: East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem – dir. Henrique Cymerman, Erez Miller, 2014, Israel
• Eden Rests – dir. Ofer Kapota, 2013, Israel
• Facing Fear – dir. Jason Cohen, 2013, USA
• Farewell Baghdad: The Dove Flyer – dir. Nissim Dayan, 2014, Israel
• Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Gett: Le Proces de Viviane Amsalem) – dir. Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, 2014, France, Germany, Israel
• Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion – dir. Shimmy Marcus, 2013, UK
• Hanna’s Journey (Hannas Reise) – dir. Julia von Heinz, 2013, Germany, Israel
• Havana Curveball – dir. Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider, 2014, Cuba, USA
• Holy Land – dir. Peter Cohn, 2013, USA
• Kidon (Javelin) – dir. Emmanuel Naccache, 2013, Israel
• Little White Lie – dir. Lacey Schwartz, 2014, USA
• Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love – dir. Dori Berinstein, 2013, USA, UK
• Mr. Kaplan (Esperando a Mister Kaplan) – dir. Alvaro Brechner, 2014, Uruguay, Germany, Spain
• Pockets #1 – dir. Goran Dukic, 2012, Israel
• Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story – dir. Barry Avrich, 2013, Canada
• Reverence – dir. Collin Kornfeind, 2014, Israel, USA
• Run Boy Run (Lauf Junge Lauf) – dir. Pepe Danquart, 2013, France, Germany
• Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa – dir. Abby Ginzberg, 2014, South Africa, USA
• Summer Vacation (Chofesh Gadol) – dir. Tal Granit, Sharon Mayon, 2012, Israel
• The Art Dealer (L’Antiquaire) – dir. Francois Margolin, 2014, France
• The Funeral – dir. Nick Green, 2013, UK
• The Outrageous Sophie Tucker – dir. William Gazecki, 2014, USA
• The Seder – dir. Justin Kelly, 2011, Canada
• Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem – dir. John Lollos, 2014, USA
• Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland – dir. Jacob J. Podber, 2013, USA
• Write Down, I Am an Arab (Tirshom, Ani Aravi/Sajel Ana Arabi) – dir. Ibtisam Mara’ana Menuhin, 2014, Israel, Palestine
• Zazaland – dir. Maayan Coheni, 2013, Israel
