We are pleased to bring you the Best of the Fest from this season’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. We are featuring three must-see films throughout the month of February.
First up on Thursday, February 20th is Bad Shabbos
About the film: In this dark comedy, cranky and and misanthropic, Marek Polsky has survived the war and the camps. He’s now resettled in a South American village, where he seems content to tend his roses, play chess games in his head, and mutter to himself. But it’s 1960, Adolf Eichmann has just been seized in Argentina, and now Polsky is suspiciously eyeing the secretive German-speaking elderly man who has moved in next door. It’s alarming: The man bears an uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler. Not only that, this ostensible neighbor “Herzog” has a German shepherd, a penchant for painting, an expansionist agenda, and a ferocious temper. When no one takes Polsky’s suspicions seriously, he decides to take matters into his own hands, daring to establish a wary acquaintanceship with the neighbor in order to gain positive proof of Herzog’s true, monstrous identity. They begin a cat and mouse game of trying to get to know eachother, finding out who the other really is, and perhaps even becoming friends.
Looking for dinner and a movie? Join us at 5:30 for an optional dinner, themed to each movie. Just select the dinner and a movie option at checkout. For this film, we will be serving a New York Shabbos insprired meal.
Every ticket comes with free concessions; popcorn, candies, wine and sodas!
BEST OF THE FEST 2022 FILM SCHEDULE :
If you missed it this summer, now’s your chance to catch it closer to home in Marin! We are pleased to present three films that represent the best of this season’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
• Thursday, February 20: Bad Shabbos
• Thursday, February 27 : The Return from the Other Planet
The real-life story of the mysterious author who reinvented himself as Ka-Tzetnik (Prisoner) and created a body of influential works based on his imprisonment at Auschwitz. Then went on to seek healing through LSD trials in the Netherlands.
• Thursday, March 6th: All About the Levkoviches
In this heartwarming and sinking comedy, Tamás, an aging boxing coach’s, beloved wife, Zsuzsa dies unexpectedly, he begrungingly agrees to sit Shiva with his estranged son, as long as he brings his grandson, Ariel with him. The film takes us on the journey of wacky and heartbreaking family dynanics.
ABOUT THE SF JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the first and largest Jewish film festival in the world. Presenting innovative film each summer in the Bay Area, the festival promotes awareness, appreciation and pride in the diversity of the Jewish people. Festival programs are meant to create community and strengthen consciousness of Jewish identity, history and culture; provide a dynamic and inclusive forum for exploration of and dialogue about the Jewish experience; and encourage independent filmmakers working with Jewish themes.
