Three Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film grantees are playing this summer at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival between July 28th and August 7th, of which two will be featured at a panel discussion.

2009 grantees Ronit Avni, Julia Bacha, and Lisa Zbar's award-winning documentary Budrus plays July 28th at 4:00 PM and August 1st at 6:45 PM. The film is about Ayed Morrar, a community organizer who became the leader of a Palestinian nonviolent movement that successfully united Palestinian factions and Israelis. Together, they not only protected but expanded Palestinian territory--a feat never before accomplished through violent or nonviolent means.

2007 grantee Lisa Gossels's My So-Called Enemy plays July 28th at 4:00 PM, August 1st at 12:00 noon, and August 7th at 2:15 PM. It tells the story of six young Palestinian and Israeli female participants in “Building Bridges,” a special women’s leadership program that took place in 2002, and their divergent lives over the next five years. 

2009 grantee John-Keith Wasson's Surviving Hitler: A Love Story plays July 28th at 1:15 PM and August 4th at 2:15 PM. The film chronicles the lives of two subversive German teenagers who fall in love amidst a doomed plot to kill Hitler.

On July 29th, the Festival presents, "Is Dialogue Possible?: How Films Help Us Talk About Israel (Or Not ...)," a panel discussion featuring the films Budrus and My So-Called Enemy as well as their directors.