Moshe Rosenthal’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ to Open 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Tell Me Everything, from Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal, will make its California Premiere as the Opening Night film of the 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on Thursday, July 16 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Tell Me Everything, which world premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, marks the second SFJFF Opening Night presentation for Rosenthal, who first attended SFJFF42 with Lior Ashkenazi in 2022 for a sold-out screening of Karaoke (2022).

Rosenthal is expected to attend Opening Night with this tender and deeply felt narrative drama about a father and son struggling to mend their fractured relationship and restore their lost connection after a devastating revelation years earlier. The delicate, coming-of-age story continues Rosenthal’s exploration of love, relationships, and age in Israeli society as first seen in his directorial debut Karaoke (2022), starring Sasson Gabai and Ashkenazi, which was nominated for 14 Israeli Academy Awards.

Set in 1987 in Tel Aviv: Europop is on the car radio, AIDS is a distant but scary headline on the news, and Boaz—a self-conscious scrawny kid approaching his bar mitzvah—is getting a loving pep talk from his dad Meir (Assi Cohen) about “becoming a man.” But in this poignant and beautifully acted family drama, Boaz’s discovery of his father’s secret life plunges the boy into confusion, rage and shame.

Writer-director Moshe Rosenthal keeps his tight focus on the experience of Boaz—portrayed with equal sensitivity at age 12 (Yair Mazor) and, in the film’s touching second half, as a young man (Ido Tako) still haunted by family trauma and in search of repair. Belying its title, Tell Me Everything is about keeping secrets—those we hide from our loved ones and from ourselves. Beyond its compelling narrative exposing Meir’s initial deception, the film explores the corrosive impact of secrecy on the entire family, as adult Boaz and his mother must confront some hard truths they have avoided facing in themselves.

“It is a joy to welcome the immensely talented Moshe Rosenthal back to SFJFF’s Opening Night with his powerful film Tell Me Everything,” says Ash Cook, Festival Director. “The Festival has a storied legacy of helping American audiences discover the work of talented, emerging international filmmakers,” added Dominique Oneil, JFI Director of Programming. “We are proud to continue that tradition with Moshe’s accomplished second feature that reminds us of the power of human connection in overwhelming times.”

The 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will take place from July 16 to August 2 in San Francisco and the East Bay, presenting more than sixty films from around the world that challenge perspectives, expand notions of Jewish identity, and catalyze nuanced conversations in polarized times.