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Award Winning SJFF Films

2020

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1st Golden Or (Light) Jury Prize

PICTURE OF HIS LIFE | Dir. Dani Menkin
World renowned wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum has one final photographic dream remaining - to photograph a Polar Bear underwater. As the journey unfolds, so does an intimate and painful story of dedication, sacrifice, and personal redemption.

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Audience Choice Award: Best Documentary Feature

PICTURE OF HIS LIFE | Dir. Dani Menkin

2019

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Audience Choice: Best Narrative Feature

SHOELACES | Dir.
The heartwarming story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son.

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Audience Choice: Best Documentry Feature

ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ | Dir.
In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS officer, “The Accountant of Auschwitz,” admitted his guilt and went on trial.

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Audience Choice: Best Animated Short

THE DRIVER IS RED | Dir.
The search for a mysterious, Nazi war criminal extends to 1960s Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this animated true-crime documentary thriller

 

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Audience Choice: Best Narrative Short 

THE TATTOO | Dir.
A mortuary artist can’t cover all old wounds.

 

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Audience Choice: Best Documentary Short

WENDY'S SHABBAT | Dir.
A Jewish boy tries to impress his Jamaican girl crush and her family.

2018 

 

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Audience Choice: Best Narrative Feature

AN ACT OF DEFIANCE | Dir.
A courageous lawyer defends Mandela’s inner circle—some black, some Jewish—in 1963 South Africa. 

 

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Audience Choice: Best Documentry Feature

SAMMY DAVIS JR:. I'VE GOTTA BE ME | Dir.
A toe-tapping, star-studded homage to this immensely talented, black-Jewish Puerto-Rican, Rat Pack entertainer. Watch on PBS Masters

 

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Audience Choice: Best Narrative Short

OUR BROTHERS | Dir.
A heated discussion at a bus stop between a secular former IDF soldier and an Orthodox man leads to an unforgettable turn of events. Watch on YouTube