Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival

Celebrating the richness and diversity of the Jewish world through the magical lens of multimedia.

Admission to all 2024 SCJFF films and events is free to the pubic with donations gratefully requested.

Festival Schedule:

2:00 pm: SEVAP/MITZVAH  

A poetic and moving dramatization of a true story from 80 years ago. In Nazi-occupied Bosnia, a Muslim woman risks her life to save her Jewish friend. Fifty years later Bosnia is at war and the tables are turned.

followed at 2:25 pm by

SPACE TORAH

Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman realized a childhood dream and became an astronaut. He was a key member of the spacewalking team and had five missions on the Space Shuttle. On his final flight he brought a small Torah with him and read from the book of Genesis while soaring through space.

followed at 3:00 pm by

SAVOY

This thrilling film tells the story of Kochava Levy, the forgotten heroine of the 1975 Savoy Hotel terror attack in Tel Aviv. On one March night, PLO gunmen entered the hotel, seized hostages and demanded release of Palestinian prisoners. Kochava, a Yemenite Jew, acted as translator and mediator.