This Is Your Life: Holocaust Survivors

UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Arcive 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

 UCLA Festival of Preservation This Is Your Life: Holocaust Survivors Axel Gruenberg, Richard Gottlieb (U.S., 1953, 1955, 1961) Introduction by Julie Kohner, the daughter of Hanna Bloch Kohner and the founder and CEO of Voices of the Generations, a non-profit organization to preserving the memory and personal stories of Holocaust survivors. Hosted by the effervescent Ralph […]

Cordelia, Mein Kind

The Marsh Theater,The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

Thur & Fri at 8pm Sat at 5pm Sun at 3pm   Cordelia, Mein Kind is a duet for film and live body; a personal exploration of a present-day Cordelia-like character revealed through language, physicality, image and film. Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, the piece combines original interviews (between a contemporary Cordelia and her father, a […]

Screening: Adam Resurrected

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

See the film adapted from the controversial 1968 novel by noted Israeli author, Yoram Kaniuk, and directed by Paul Schrader. Adam Resurrected follows Adam Stein, a once famous European clown and now an unhinged patient in an Israeli mental institution. With performances by Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer. Adam Resurrected (USA, 106 min) Dir. Paul […]

UC Berkeley Israeli Film Festival

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

Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. "The Matchmaker" […]

UC Berkeley Israeli Film Festival

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

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger.

Film Screening: The Rescuers

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

The film follows Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in the Rwandan Genocide of the 1990s, and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned 20th century and Holocaust historian, as they travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats.

Brunch with SFJFF

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

In true Jewish style, we will feed not only your tummies, but also your minds. Founded in Berkeley in 1962, the Judah L. Magnes Museum and its founder Seymour Fromer were the first sponsors of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Share a toast to the important history between the two organizations. We will screen […]

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival – Best of SFJFF Online Shorts

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)

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)

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

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)

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 […]