Festival Schedule
Join us for the Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival from November 1-5, 2023 at The New Vic Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara.
All Access Passholders are granted early admission to all shows. Times subject to change.
Join us as we toast the opening of the Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival.
This feature-length documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his…
Coffee and Bagels
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Enjoy coffee and bagels from Jack's Bagels before the first film begins.
Everybody's Sons
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
This touching and heart-affecting Israeli film tells the story of three lone soldiers from the Golani Brigade who wer…
BY HIS WILL
Directed by Uriel Torten
Israel / 15 mins
SPACE TORAH
Directed by Rachel Raz
USA / 24 mins
PSAGOT RAMAL…
In this taut psychological thriller, a benign real estate deal becomes a sinister standoff between a bourgeois French…
Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life documents a community’s response to hate and antisemitism in the…
The Dinner
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Emma and Gregory, Russian immigrants, are having a hard time adapting in Israel. They cross paths with Alon, an amate…
Coffee and Bagels
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Enjoy coffee and bagels from Jack's Bagels before the first film begins.
Plan A
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
PLAN A is based on the incredible true story of the Avengers. A group of Jewish vigilantes, men and women, who after …
Wet Dog
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Soheil is 15, when his Jewish-Iranian family moves to Wedding, one of Berlin’s multicultural, mostly Muslim, neighb…
Anne Braun is a young German Gentile woman with a crush on Judaism. She owns a bookstore in Munich specializing in Je…
The Jews and the Blues is a musical journey that along the way becomes something much more; created by Drew Stone, a d…
Coffee and Bagels
The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Enjoy coffee and bagels from Jack's Bagels before the first film begins.
Western Jewish pioneers, those of the silver screen and real life, are a largely forgotten chapter in US history. And…
An ex-con turned Rabbi. A nice Jewish girl who liked bad boys.
How can two individuals who hurt so many people and m…
Legendary French actor Daniel Auteuil stars as Joseph Haffmann, the owner and gifted jeweler of a humble shop in Pari…
The unlikely friendship between Samuel, an elderly, lonely Holocaust survivor, and Casey, an angry 14-year-old runawa…