This don’t-miss event combines a classic Lower East Side silent melodrama with a brand new commissioned score performed live on the Castro stage by the Moab Strangers. Composer Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets on Fire) and a slew of talented Bay Area psychedelic and folk heroes provide an inspired, cutting-edge soundtrack to the 1922 restored silent Hungry Hearts. The film is adapted from the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, a Jewish writer whose rags-to-riches tales of immigrant hardship led to her nickname, the Sweatshop Cinderella. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and shot on location in New York, Hungry Hearts is a vividly drawn portrait of a struggling Jewish family, at once tragic and richly comic.

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Follow these young-adult storytellers as they attempt to fill the voids in their own family stories, using a combination of original motion pictures, illustrations, photos, graphic designs, audio and text to spark conversation about what it means to come of age on the border between Jewish identity and mainstream American life.

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For more information, visit the website for SF Jewish Film Festival Presents Hungry Hearts.