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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 'Jai'

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 'Jai'

November 20, 2009 11:58

By Jessica Elgot

1 min read

Jai is a short film from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival by Ariel Zylbersztejn. When a young Mexican Jewish girl innocently asks her grandmother about the numbers tattooed on her arm, the answer isn't quite what you'd expect.

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