Week of Events
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
The 31st annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival will be held March 14-29, 2026.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Featured March 15, 2026 -Featured WE MET AT GROSSINGER’S – Brunch Film
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Featured March 15, 2026 -Featured LEFT LANE STRAIGHT – Sephardic Spotlight
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Featured March 15, 2026 -Featured JINXED a.k.a PURE LUCK (מזל חתולה)
WE MET AT GROSSINGER’S – Brunch Film
Spend the summer in the New York Catskills with those who sojourned there and were inspired by it. Grossinger’s famed resort was an oasis for Jewish families, celebrities and a crown jewel of the Borscht Belt.
LEFT LANE STRAIGHT – Sephardic Spotlight
Filmmaker Caroline Kaye examines the turbulent history of Greek Jews and family lore surrounding her Sephardic grandmother’s story of escape and exodus from Kavala, Greece, in 1943.
JINXED a.k.a PURE LUCK (מזל חתולה)
Comedy duo Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon (MAKTUB, FORGIVENESS) strike comedy gold again with this hilarious farce about two TV repairmen caught in the crosshairs of an Israeli mob hit.
Monday, March 16, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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Featured March 17, 2026 -Featured FANTASY LIFE
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Featured March 17, 2026 -Featured ZELENSKY
FANTASY LIFE
A young man in crisis becomes a nanny for an upscale NYC family (Amanda Peet, Alessandro Nivola) and shakes up the couple’s complex relationship.
ZELENSKY
President Volodymyr Zelensky has become the iconic symbol of modern Ukraine. This French documentary shines a light on his lesser-known journey from popular entertainer to world leader.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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Featured March 18, 2026 -Featured OXYGEN (חמצן)
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Featured March 18, 2026 -Featured SHORTS PROGRAM – “IT TAKES A SHTETL!”
OXYGEN (חמצן)
An elementary teacher impatiently waits for her son’s discharge from the army. When he is called back to duty in Lebanon, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
SHORTS PROGRAM – “IT TAKES A SHTETL!”
Building community (kehillah) is not necessarily about blood relations; rather, it is often rooted in shared places and experiences. Six exceptional short films showcase how bonds with total strangers can resolve age-old Jewish questions. We need one another for safety and sanity!
Thursday, March 19, 2026
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Featured March 19, 2026 -Featured THE SEA (הים)
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Featured March 19, 2026 -Featured THE TASTERS
THE SEA (הים)
Winner of five Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and the country’s 2026 Oscar submission, THE SEA is a tender, wryly comic and profound story about a Palestinian boy wandering through Tel Aviv on a quest to see the beach for the first time.
THE TASTERS
Three meals a day, but each bite might be your last: Rosa is recruited to be a food taster in Hitler’s secret bunker in this gripping and surreal historical drama based on a true story.
Friday, March 20, 2026
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Featured March 20, 2026 -Featured CHARLES GRODIN: REBEL WITH A CAUSE – Friday Matinee
CHARLES GRODIN: REBEL WITH A CAUSE – Friday Matinee
The sardonic wit and deadpan comedic perfection of actor Charles Grodin wasn’t his only gift. He spent much of his life dedicated to fighting for social justice causes.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
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Featured March 21, 2026 -Featured DEAD LANGUAGE (שפה זרה) – Israeli Spotlight
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Featured March 21, 2026 -Featured THE RING (הטבעת) – Israeli Spotlight
DEAD LANGUAGE (שפה זרה) – Israeli Spotlight
A chance encounter with a man at the airport sends Aya on an odyssey to reignite her spark. Based on an Oscar-nominated short.
THE RING (הטבעת) – Israeli Spotlight
Popular Israeli comedian Adir Miller wrote, codirected and stars in this comic melodrama about a family’s trip to Hungary to discover the whereabouts of their matriarch’s fabled ring.