Week of Events
SJFF: HONEY TRAP (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of HONEY TRAP. A nuanced look at the formidable activism and struggles of Israel’s now-settled Ethiopian communities.
SJFF: VALIANT HEARTS (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of VALIANT HEARTS, a true story of six Jewish children hidden during WWII among priceless artworks from the Louvre Museum.
SJFF: DIVORCE DENIED (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of DIVORCE DENIED. Batya, a religious lawyer, struggles against the Israeli rabbinical court’s unfair and outdated divorce process on behalf of her clients.
SJFF: RECKONINGS (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of RECKONINGS, the fascinating, untold story of secret negotiations over reparations for Holocaust survivors and how to heal a people.
SJFF: THE MAN IN THE BASEMENT (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festivalvirtual showing of MAN IN THE BASEMENT, a suspenseful, psychological thriller about a standoff between a French couple and their new tenant, a Holocaust denier.
SJFF: THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO. Monticello is one of the most iconic landmarks in American preservation history, but little is known about the Jewish naval officer and his family who turned it into a national treasure despite antisemitic backlash.
SJFF: THE CONSULTANT – ARTHUR FINKELSTEIN (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of THE CONSULTANT – ARTHUR FINKELSTEIN. Conservative political consultant Arthur Finkelstein lived a double life of extreme contradictions.
SJFF Shorts Program: SAYING KADDISH (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of our Shorts Program: Saying Kaddish, curated by Warren Etheredge, SJFF Shorts Program Curator and Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Walla Walla Movie Crush.
Passover Food Drive
Stocking up on Tam Tams and macaroons? Treat a JFS client to your favorite Passover snack while you’re at it! Drop off your kosher-for-Passover donations at the J from March 13 to 24.
SJFF: SAVOY (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of SAVOY. In 1975, hostage Kochava Levy bravely serves as mediator between terrorists and the IDF in a Tel Aviv hotel.
SJFF: FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN. In 1941, in occupied Paris, Jewish jeweler Joseph Haffmann proposes a risky proposition to his employee.
SJFF: CONCERNED CITIZEN (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of CONCERNED CITIZEN, where an attempt to beautify their gritty, new Tel Aviv neighborhood complicates life for couple Ben and Raz.
SJFF: THE ART OF SILENCE (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of THE ART OF SILENCE, the first documentary about the life and artistic journey of legendary French mime artist Marcel Marceau.
SJFF: AMERICA (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of AMERICA, where swimming coach returns home to Israel and finds himself caught in a love triangle.
SJFF: KARAOKE (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of KARAOKE, an offbeat, bittersweet comedy about a married couple drawn to a charismatic bachelor who holds karaoke evenings at his apartment.
SJFF: ALEGRÍA (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of ALEGRÍA, a moving drama about a woman breaking free from patriarchal tradition in her North African Sephardic Jewish community.
SJFF: THE REPLACEMENT (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of The Replacement. A young police officer investigates the murder of the inspector he replaced in this chilling, fast-paced, Hitchcockian thriller set in 1982 post-Franco Spain.
SJFF: THE JEWISH JAIL LADY & THE HOLY THIEF (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of JEWISH JAIL LADY & THE HOLY THIEF. He was a convict turned rabbi; she was a sex-addicted housewife. Together, they saved thousands of lives in recovery.
SJFF: WHERE LIFE BEGINS (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of WHERE LIFE BEGINS, the story of a rabbi’s rebellious daughter and a divorced farmer who both long to break free.
SJFF: MY FATHER’S SECRETS (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of MY FATHER'S SECRETS, a funny and engrossing animated film about a family’s path to reconciliation after facing their father’s traumatic journey during the Holocaust.
SJFF: ONE MORE STORY (Virtual)
Join us for the 2023 Seattle Jewish Film Festival virtual showing of ONE MORE STORY, a classic, charming, and modern romantic comedy with a fresh – and very Israeli – twist. Comedian Guri Alfi stars in his own directorial debut.