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By Shai Ginsburg

Yoav Shamir's 2009 documentary Defamation is the one must-see film at this years’ San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

This is not to say that it is the most artistically successful of the current festival lineup. Nor is the reason behind this endorsement Defamation's fast-growing reputation, alongside Simone Bitton’s controversial documentary about the late Rachel Corrie, the logically-titled Rachel. Defamation's

notoriety stems from the fact that the documentary takes as its ...