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IDO HARR: A big live wound
Today more Israeli filmmakers search for different approaches to familiar subjects, Ido Harr explains.
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SAN FRANCISCO 2012: A real desire for understanding
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has earned a reputation for bold programming. Panelists discuss Jewish identity, values, and politics. Occasionally, the documentaries screened at the festival have provoked protest and anger from within the Jewish American community
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A lifestyle attitude
German heidemarie Schermer literally gave away all her possessions to live without money. Does the director explore all the critical issues?
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Nobody loves a genius child
Tamra Davis delivers a tribute to Basquiat with great insight into his work and an artworld flawed by racism and predujice.
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Love and the family
This film is about love, and love only.
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SAN FRANCISCO 2010: Population–migration–globalization
The united Nations Association Film Festival is not for the faint of heart. Several films focus on migration and climate changes. Many people in the Pacific will become climate refugees, and what will become of all the child migrants who leave their families?
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A young Kenyan’s life changes drastically
In this film about supporting an African, they understand education is the only thing that can change someone’s life.
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Bill Cunningham, one of the mainstays of the New York Times
Bill Cunningham travels about New York City on his bicycle shooting photos of people. He is a man with immense integrity.
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Chronicle of a Kidnap
Karnit Goldwasser is the young wife of Ehud Goldwasser, one of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah in 2006, an action that launched the second Lebanon war. Through interviews and vérité footage shot over roughly 18 months, Nirit Kedar crafts a complex story about one woman’s dogged determination to find out whether her husband is…
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SAN FRANCISCO 2009: Social justice as a Jewish value
The films selected for, and the people invited to SFJFF make emotions run high in the Jewish community and amongst festivals sponsors.
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NURIT KEDAR: Looking for the Hard Way
Nurit Kedar wants audiences to feel uneasy when they watch her documentaries
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SHERINE SALAMA: Reluctant Participant
Sherine Salama was the last person to interview Yasser Arafat, just a month before his death, but it took her a year to get the permission to do it. Her film “The Last Days of Yasser Arafat” was screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival this May where DOX met her.