WinterFest Feb. 25-26, 2023 San Francisco (Jewish Film Institute)

[Chris Knipp]

Jewish Film Institute presents: WinterFest 2023 | February 25–26 at the Vogue Theater, San Francisco

GENERAL FILM FORUM THREAD

Films

Do I Need This?
"Do I Need This?" is a documentary film about American excess, and the stuff from which happiness is truly made.


A House Made of Splinters
Three kids temporarily removed from their parents find friendship and flickers of hope inside the worn walls of a remarkable orphanage in Eastern Ukraine.

Other People's Children
Rachel quickly bonds with her boyfriend’s daughter, but fears becoming irrevocably enmeshed in their family. Virginie Efira dazzles in this soulful, sexy, story of agency and belonging.

The Forger
"The Forger" stars Louis Hofmann (Netflix’s Dark) as an audacious young man who forges documents to help fellow Jews escape Nazi Germany.

The Camera of Doctor Morris
For decades, Dr. Morris filmed his family on 8mm. Long after his death, the footage is rediscovered, painting a portrait of fascinating lives fully lived.

The Levys of Monticello
Thomas Jefferson's beloved home at Monticello is saved from ruin by a Jewish family that winds up owning the house longer than Jefferson himself.

SHTTL
The 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of the inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.

Barren
A childless young ultraorthodox couple faces a big crisis, which raises fundamental questions about faith, after a traumatic religious "treatment."

Brother
Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick records calls with her brother in recovery from heroin addiction to create an experimental rotoscoped film that crosses between past and present.