filmlinc.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\nThe films for the 2024 New York Jewish Film Festival have been selected by Rachel Chanoff, Director, THE OFFICE performing arts + film; Lisa Collins, director, writer, special correspondent, programmer, and events\/film producer; Indigo Sparks, performance artist and producer; and Aviva Weintraub, director, New York Jewish Film Festival, the Jewish Museum; with Dan Sullivan, programmer, Film at Lincoln Center as advisor, and assistance from Cara Colasanti,\u00a0film festival coordinator, the Jewish Museum.<\/p>\n
Film descriptions & schedule<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nAll films screen at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th St.)<\/i><\/p>\n
Opening Film<\/b><\/p>\n
One Life
\nJames Hawes, 2023, U.K., 110m
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>In this vivid and stirring historical drama, based on true events, two-time Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins gives an intensely moving performance as Sir Nicholas Winton, a humble, mild-mannered British stockbroker who during World War II helped Jewish refugee children escape to safety from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. In the 1980s, suddenly forced to recall the events he had for decades kept to himself, Winton flashes back to stories of this heroism, which was aided by his lionhearted mother Babette (played in flashbacks by the wondrous Helena Bonham Carter), who assisted in fundraising and navigating bureaucratic obstacles in the U.K. In addition to being a remembrance of bravery and goodness in times of evil, One Life<\/i> is a vibrant reminder of the importance of human compassion.
\nWednesday, January 10 at 7:30pm
\nThursday, January 11 at 8:00pm
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Centerpiece Film<\/b><\/p>\n
Valeria Is Getting Married
\nMichal Vinik, 2023, Israel\/Ukraine, 76m
\nHebrew, Russian, and English with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>In her acclaimed second feature, Israeli filmmaker Michal Vinik explores with sensitivity and complexity the debated ritual of arranged marriages in our contemporary world. The film focuses on a pair of Ukrainian sisters: Valeria (Dasha Tvoronovich) is just arriving to Israel, where she will first meet her husband-to-be, Eiytan (Avraham Shalom Levi); and her sister Christina (Lena Fraifeld), who is married to Michael (Yaakov Zada Daniel), a marriage broker who has arranged Valeria\u2019s union. As Vinik digs deeper into their lives, cracks begin to appear in Christina\u2019s seemingly happy surface, which begin to affect Valeria. Nominated for nine Israeli Academy Awards, and winner of the Best Screenplay prize for Vinik, Valeria Is Getting Married <\/i>is a potent and probing film featuring standout performances.
\nWednesday, January 17 at 2:30pm & 8:30pm
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Closing Film<\/b><\/p>\n
Remembering Gene Wilder
\nRon Frank, 2023, U.S., 92m
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>Few comedic actors have left a more indelible mark on our culture than Gene Wilder, whose performances in such classics as The Producers<\/i>, Young Frankenstein<\/i>, and Silver Streak <\/i>made him one of the most beloved stars of his era. This enrapturing and heartfelt documentary takes a close look at the life and career of this American original, from his Jewish upbringing in Milwaukee, to his early stage work, to his breakthrough collaborations with Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor, to his marriage to Gilda Radner and beyond. Using a variety of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes; never-before-seen home movies; narration from Wilder\u2019s audiobook memoir; and interviews from a roster of brilliant collaborators including Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Carol Kane, Harry Connick Jr., Rain Pryor, Karen Wilder (Gene\u2019s wife), and Peter Ostrum, who portrayed Charlie in one of Gene\u2019s most memorable roles, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory<\/i>, Ron Frank\u2019s film shines a light on an essential performer, writer, director, and all-around mensch.
\nWednesday, January 24 at 1:00pm & 7:00pm<\/p>\n
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MAIN SLATE FILMS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n999: The Forgotten Girls<\/b>
\nHeather Dune Macadam, 2023, U.S., 86m
\nNew York City Premiere
\n<\/b>Best-selling author and historian Heather Dune Macadam has adapted her acclaimed book 999<\/i> into a powerful new documentary that sheds light on a wrenching true story. In March 1942, nearly 1,000 young Slovak Jewish women, mostly teenagers, told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment, were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish transport to the Nazi death camp. Rather than strictly focus on the suffering and death experienced by most of the girls, Macadam tells stories of a small group who survived against all odds, even under unimaginable conditions that lasted more than three grueling years. A film of deep research and vivid detail, 999: The Forgotten Girls<\/i> ensures that these women will no longer be a historical footnote. Note: some images may be disturbing.
\nMonday, January 22 at 5:30pm<\/p>\n
All About the Levkoviches
\nAdam Breier, 2023, Hungary, 85m
\nHungarian and Hebrew with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>Told with delightfully mordant humor and a genuine warmth, this appealing domestic story from Hungarian filmmaker Adam Breier follows a Jewish family on the winding path toward reconciliation. Tamas (a gruff but tender Bezer\u00e9di Zolt\u00e1n) is an aging boxing coach in present-day Budapest whose relationship with his son, Ivan (Szab\u00f3 Kimmel Tam\u00e1s), has frayed to the point of estrangement. After converting to Orthodox Judaism, Ivan moved to Israel, where he had a son, Ariel (Leo Gagel), whom Tamas has never met. Now, Ivan and Ariel have come back to Budapest for the funeral of Tamas\u2019s wife, forcing father and son to face one another. Breier\u2019s film is masterfully acted and directed, maintaining a perfectly balanced tone between comedy and pathos.
\nMonday, January 15 at 3:45pm
\nTuesday, January 16 at 1:00pm
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\nThe Books He Didn\u2019t Burn
\nClaus Bredenbrock and Jascha Hannover, 2023, Germany, 92m
\nEnglish, French, and German with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>This powerful documentary takes a critical look at the history of racism and antisemitism, and examines the remains of Adolf Hitler\u2019s private library. The library, which comprised approximately 16,000 books by the time of his death, remains an object of intense study\u2014more than 1,200 of them are currently housed in Washington D.C. at the Library of Congress. Claus Bredenbrock and Jascha Hannover\u2019s gripping, provocative documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, follows Timothy W. Ryback, an eminent American historian and expert on Hitler\u2019s library, as he tries to make sense of the historical meaning of this collection. Note: some images may be disturbing.
\nMonday, January 15 at 1:00pm
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\nDelegation
\nAsaf Saban, 2023, Israel\/Poland\/Germany, 101m
\nHebrew with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>A common rite of passage for many young Jewish people becomes the anchor for a work of stirring drama and striking realism in the hands of filmmaker Asaf Saban. The film follows a trio of Israeli high school friends\u2014Frisch, Nitzan, and Ido\u2014on a class trip to Poland to visit former Nazi concentration camps and memorials of the Shoah. As with so many teenagers, the weight of history sometimes takes a back seat to seemingly more pressing concerns of the day, like love, jealousy, and friendship, as they begin to reckon with the tragic past and the question of their unknown future. A road trip movie and a coming-of-age drama, Delegation<\/i> is about the search for one\u2019s identity against the backdrop of an ever-present, unblinking history.
\nSunday, January 21 at 7:15pm
\nMonday, January 22 at 2:00pm
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\nFioretta<\/b>
\nMatthew Mishory, 2023, U.S.\/Czech Republic, 127m
\nNew York City Premiere
\n<\/b>This enthralling and personal documentary takes as its subject nothing less than the depths and expanses of Jewish history itself, while also focusing on the contemporary relationship of a father and son connecting through their shared fascination with the past. Fioretta<\/i> follows E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg, a Los Angeles\u2013based genealogist and dedicated attorney who specializes in recovering Nazi-looted art, and his at-times-reluctant teenage son, Joey, as they embark on a quest to trace their family lineage and to find out more about an ancestor named Fioretta. This leads them to Randy\u2019s famous grandfather, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg; his great-grandmother Pauline, a music teacher in Prague; and then further and further back to the 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto in Venice. It\u2019s a story of kings and mystics, but also of everyday people who lived through centuries of historical upheaval throughout Europe, taking Randy and Joey\u2014and the viewer\u2014on a journey from California to Austria, the Czech Republic, and Italy.
\nSunday, January 21 at 3:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Giado <\/b>
\nSharon Yaish and Golan Rise, 2023, Israel, 56m
\nHebrew and Italian with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>This deeply personal documentary by Sharon Yaish and Golan Rise began when Yaish uncovered her grandfather Yosef\u2019s journal. She quickly realized there was much she didn\u2019t know about her own family\u2019s past, specifically the harrowing conditions at the Giado concentration camp in the Libyan desert, where more than 3,000 Jews were sent from their homes in Benghazi during World War II. Though Yosef had kept his diary a secret from his family, Yaish and her co-director Golan Rise, whose mother was also enslaved at a labor camp in Libya, have decided to share this history in order to raise awareness. For too long, the Holocaust of North African Jewry has been left under-discussed and largely treated as a footnote; Giado<\/i> uses interviews, animation, reconstructed models of the camp, and diary passages to create a singular, immersive experience of a past that shouldn\u2019t be forgotten.<\/p>\n
Preceded by<\/i>:
\nCrossing the River
\nAllan Novak, 2023, Canada, 30m
\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/b>The world\u2019s oldest living siblings who survived the Holocaust are the charming and inspiring subjects of this remarkable short documentary. Director Allan Novak and producer Debi Wisch introduce us to Sally, Anne, Ruth (affectionately known as the \u201cshvesters,\u201d or sisters), and their brother Sol, whose ages range from 96 to 101. Miraculously living through years in a Siberian labor camp after escaping from Nazi-occupied Poland, the siblings tell the story of their lives in Winnipeg, where they\u2019ve lived since the end of the war.
\nThursday, January 18 at 5:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
The Goldman Case
\nC\u00e9dric Kahn, 2023, France, 115m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>One of the most acclaimed films from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, this gripping courtroom drama from widely admired French filmmaker C\u00e9dric Kahn (Red Lights<\/i>) delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman, a left-wing activist defending himself against multiple charges, including murder during an armed robbery. Arieh Worthalter is mesmerizing as the accused, a revolutionary and the son of Polish Jewish refugees who steadfastly maintained his innocence, while the facts of his case became a flash point for a generation, raising questions of antisemitism and political ideology. Directed with v\u00e9rit\u00e9 realism and pinpoint historical precision, The Goldman Case<\/i> is a focused, distilled dramatization that\u2019s both subdued and electrifying, communicating so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
\nSunday, January 14 at 6:30pm<\/b>
\nThursday, January 18 at 2:15pm
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\nJames Joyce\u2019s Ulysses
\nAdam Low, 2022, U.K., 88m
\n<\/b>Ulysses<\/i>, the experimental novel by Irish writer James Joyce first published in 1922, misunderstood by many, and initially banned in the U.S. for obscenity, is regarded as one of the most groundbreaking, game-changing books ever written. It\u2019s also, according to British journalist and novelist Howard Jacobson, \u201cthe greatest Jewish novel of the 20th century\u2014the first one with a Jew at its very center\u201d: Leopold Bloom. Adam Low\u2019s engaging documentary, made on the centennial of Ulysses<\/i>\u2019s publication in Paris, plumbs the depths of this monumental work of literature\u2014its meaning, its beauty and controversies, its explicitness and daring language, and the story of how a group of intrepid book lovers made sure it was published at all, including Sylvia Beach, who published the first edition from her Paris bookshop, and a lesbian couple who risked imprisonment for printing obscenity. A film that champions art and the people who encourage, create, and protect it, Low\u2019s documentary testifies to the longevity of a masterpiece that still has the capacity to jolt readers to this day.
\nSunday, January 21 at 1:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n
The Klezmer Project <\/b>
\nLeandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann, 2023, Austria\/Argentina, 117m
\nSpanish, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Romanian, English, and German with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>An inventive delight from filmmakers and real-life romantic partners Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann, the unconventional music film\/road movie The Klezmer Project<\/i> eludes normal classification, providing a pleasing experience beginning to end. Beginning as a fictionalized version of its directors\u2019 own relationship, the film follows Buenos Aires wedding documentarian Leandro as he meets klezmer band clarinetist Paloma while on a job. The two decide to collaborate on a documentary about the Ashkenazi genre of instrumental music they both love. Soon, the film we\u2019re watching begins to incorporate more elements, including a Yiddish-language supernatural tale and a metacinematic road journey. The grandchildren of Jewish immigrants who fled Europe during World War II, the filmmakers have made a brilliant, multilayered film.
\nTuesday, January 23 at 5:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Looking for Chlo\u00e9 <\/b>
\nIsabelle Cottenceau, 2023, France, 78m
\nFrench and English with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>A documentary portrait of the Jewish Egyptian designer Gaby Aghion (1921\u20132014), founder of the French fashion house Chlo\u00e9. With clients such as Brigitte Bardot, Jackie Kennedy, and Maria Callas, transformed the clothing industry with clothes that went against the concept of haute couture to give women lighter, more wearable wardrobes. This empowering, revolutionary figure is the subject of this colorful, immersive documentary by French director Isabelle Cottenceau and producer Sophie Jeaneau, which uses previously unseen archival footage and images, as well as a recreated interview with Aghion herself, to paint a picture of an extraordinary woman and period in history for the fashion world. The film is a worthy tribute to Aghion, also a committed political figure and intellectual, who is believed to have invented the very concept of pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter<\/i>.
\nSaturday, January 20 at 7:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Mothers of Today
\nHenry Lynn, 1939, U.S., 35mm 85m
\nYiddish with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere of 35mm Restoration
\n<\/b>In this restoration of a rarely shown classic from 1939, screening on 35mm, audiences have the delightful chance to witness the only big-screen appearance of Esther Field, the 1930s radio star who was known as the quintessential \u201cYiddishe Mama.\u201d A domestic melodrama starring Field as an immigrant Jewish widow in New York who bears witness to the gradual deterioration of her family and loss of tradition due to neighborhood crime and the realities of assimilation, Mothers of Today<\/i> is an example of the shund<\/i> genre, forthrightly sentimental, low-budget films that were popular with working-class Jewish immigrant communities. Shot in the Bronx, this fascinating and moving historical artifact is also a showcase for traditional Jewish music and prayers, and still has the power to grip and move viewers with its authentic emotional directness. Film restoration by the National Center for Jewish Film
\nThursday, January 11 at 2:30pm
\nSunday, January 14 at 12:00pm<\/b>
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\nMy Daughter, My Love
\nEitan Green, 2023, Israel\/France, 94m
\nFrench and Hebrew with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>An understated and delicately drawn drama, My Daughter, My Love <\/i>penetrates the foibles and difficulties we face in talking about parenting, relationships, love, and family. During a trip to Paris to see a close friend since their childhood together in Marrakesh, who is recovering from a recent heart attack, Israeli widower Shimon, wonderfully played by Sasson Gabai (The Band\u2019s Visit<\/i>), visits his daughter, Alma (Sivan Levy), and her husband, Dori (Cl\u00e9ment Aubert), whose marriage seems fraught with tension. He soon discovers that Alma has been seeing another man and wants to leave Dori along with their young son. This begins a complex web of interactions that reveal the desires and frustrations of each person in the family, parent or child, leading to Shimon\u2019s revelation that there are limits to his control over his daughter’s life. Eitan Green\u2019s film is a beautifully evoked and marvelously acted tale of acceptance and the feeling that it\u2019s never too late to grow up.
\nMonday, January 22 at 8:15pm
\nTuesday, January 23 at 2:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
No Name Restaurant <\/b>
\nStefan Sarazin and Peter Keller, 2022, Germany, 120m
\nHebrew, Arabic, and English with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>In this spirited and absurdist culture-clash comedy, two men of different strict religious faiths must work together to survive in the Sinai Desert. One is the lost and befuddled Ben (Luzer Twersky, Castles in the Sky<\/i>; Felix and Meira<\/i>), an ultra-Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn who has missed his flight to Alexandria, where he is to help the ever-dwindling Jewish community in need of a 10th man for its Passover celebration. The other is the dyspeptic Adel (Hitham Omari), a Bedouin man driving a Renault 4 trying to track down his runaway camel. After Adel\u2019s car breaks down, the men must travel on foot, giving them a chance to get to know one another\u2019s personal lives (and love of food) better, and giving their plans\u2014which end up including a night in a Greek monastery\u2014a chance to go increasingly haywire.
\nThursday, January 18 at 8:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Rabbi on the Block
\nBrad Rothschild, 2023, U.S., 89m
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>This gripping documentary profiles the transformative and visionary Rabbi Tamar Manasseh, who is devoted to building bridges between the Black and Jewish communities on Chicago\u2019s South Side. With verit\u00e9 intimacy, filmmaker Brad Rothschild (They Ain\u2019t Ready for Me<\/i>) shows how the issues playing out within these Chicago neighborhoods reflect larger realities across contemporary America, at a moment when antisemitism and racism are on the rise. The film also evokes Manasseh\u2019s struggles in gaining acceptance within the larger Jewish community, as well as joyous events such as her rabbinical ordination and the bris of her first grandson. Rothschild creates an economical, humane portrait of a woman and her tireless battle that\u2019s as intimate as it is widely socially relevant.
\nMonday, January 15 at 6:30pm
\nTuesday, January 16 at 4:00pm<\/p>\n
The Shadow of the Day
\nGiuseppe Piccioni, 2022, Italy, 125m
\nItalian with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>A thoroughly gripping tale of love against odds set in Italy of the late 1930s, The Shadow of the Day<\/i> follows provincial restaurant owner Luciano (Riccardo Scamarcio, Where Life Begins<\/i>), a veteran wounded in World War I and a fascist sympathizer who has cut himself off from the world and his own emotions. Soon, a mysterious, penniless young woman, Anna (Benedetta Porcaroli), arrives at his doorstep looking for a job; gradually her presence begins to open him up to the possibility of human connection. At the same time, the dangerous antisemitism and political realities of Europe are creeping into their daily lives, leading to a reckoning that will force Luciano to question everything he thinks he knows about the world and his own heart. Filmed in the picturesque town of Ascoli Piceno in central Italy, Giuseppe Piccioni\u2019s beautifully mounted human drama demonstrates the possibility of redemption in the darkest times.
\nSaturday, January 13 at 7:00pm
\nSunday, January 14 at 2:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher<\/b>
\nDavid Ofek, 2023, Israel, 56m
\nEnglish, Dutch, and Hebrew with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>A Jewish Portuguese philosopher of the Enlightenment period born and raised in Amsterdam, Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated by the city\u2019s Jewish authorities in 1656. His questioning of the nature of God and the divine origin of the Hebrew Bible had, the community\u2019s leaders believed, crossed the line into heresy. Centuries later, this is considered a formative event in the development of Western Jewish thought. David Ofek\u2019s accessible and fascinating documentary excavates this history, tracing six reasons why Spinoza was kicked out and explains why his unorthodox, profoundly spiritual ideas were revolutionary and remain radical to this day.<\/p>\n
Preceded by
\n<\/i>Periphery
\nSara Yacobi-Harris, 2021, Canada, 28m
\nEnglish and Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>This short film by Black and Jewish filmmaker Sara Yacobi-Harris takes a close look at multicultural Jewish identity. Using dance, poetry, and spoken personal narratives, Periphery<\/i> tells the stories of 10 Jews of varying descents, including Black\/African, Indian, Iraqi, Korean, and South American, and various representations and sexualities. Yacobi-Harris\u2019s film is an enlightening and enriching experience that affords a better grasp of the complexities of international and intersectional Jewish life.
\nWednesday, January 17 at 5:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Stay With Us
\nGad Elmaleh, 2022, France, 93m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\n<\/b>A delicate topic often unexplored on screen is treated with humor, irreverence, and complexity in Moroccan-born, French Jewish comedian and filmmaker Gad Elmaleh\u2019s comedy Stay With Us<\/i>. Taking the form of autobiographical comic portraiture, Elmaleh stars as a version of himself, returning home to Paris to see his parents (Elmaleh\u2019s real mother and father) after living for years in the United States. His journey back home comes with some shocking news: He has decided to convert to Catholicism and is asking for his parents\u2019 blessing for his forthcoming baptism. Both a tale of spiritual self-discovery and an entertaining depiction of ideological culture clash that ensues as Gad\u2019s dumbstruck parents try to reckon with this turn of events, Stay With Us<\/i> is a delightful film about challenging matters, and a reminder that sometimes our paths aren\u2019t always easily laid out for us or our loved ones.
\nThursday, January 11 at 5:30pm
\nWednesday, January 24 at 4:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n
Vishniac
\nLaura Bialis, 2023, U.S., 93m
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>Director Laura Bialis\u2019s penetrating documentary, produced by Nancy Spielberg and Roberta Grossman, looks at the complicated life of the legendary photographer Roman Vishniac. The now-iconic images of Eastern European Jewish life he captured in the 1930s\u2014taken to help raise funds for Jewish people in need, which later became documentation of communities entirely wiped out\u2014remain his most renowned output, yet as this wide-ranging portrait, told from the perspective of his daughter Mara, reveals, his artistry transcended both historical eras and aesthetic movements. While tracking his early life in czarist Russia to his celebrated artistic career in Weimar Berlin to the wartime escape of his family to America to his groundbreaking scientific work in microscopic photography, Bialis\u2019s film doesn\u2019t shy away from Vishniac\u2019s difficult personality and proclivity to bend his own truth. It\u2019s a nuanced snapshot of one of the last century\u2019s most important image-makers as well as the story of a century marked by the increasing importance of photographic evidence.
\nTuesday, January 16 at 7:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n
NYJFF 2024 SHORTS PROGRAM<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nShabbos Goy
\nAdam Goott, 2022, U.K., 5m
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>This charming documentary short profiles Terry Neville, the non-Jewish, Irish caretaker at a synagogue in Hertfordshire, England. Using interviews and animation, Adam Goott pays tribute to this lovable, spirited man, who found an embracing community of people in an unlikely place.<\/p>\n
How to Make Challah
\nSarah Rosen, 2023, U.S., 12m
\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/b>In her moving short documentary, Sarah Rosen intercuts video taken in 1975 of her aunt Jane\u2019s 97-year-old immigrant grandmother baking challah in her Upper West Side kitchen with newly filmed footage of Jane, now 80, attempting to bake her own challah for the first time. From this simple premise, Rosen expresses the complex ways that history, knowledge, and family legacies are passed down through the generations, from one woman to another.<\/p>\n
Anyuka
\nMaya Erdelyi, 2023, U.S., 21m
\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/b>Maya Erdelyi\u2019s marvelous short film interweaves a variety of media\u2014animation, super-8 home movie footage, and other archival images\u2014to tell the deeply personal tale of her Hungarian-born grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, who raised her. Economically exploring questions around Jewish identity and diaspora, immigration and motherhood, Anyuka<\/i> (which means \u201cmother\u201d in Hungarian) spans three continents in its story of one woman\u2019s remarkable life.<\/p>\n
The Speed of the Distance Between Us
\nYuval Shapira, 2023, U.S.\/Israel, 19m
\nHebrew with English subtitles
\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/b>In this intimate documentary short, filmmaker Yuval Shapira sits down with 10 sets of parents who lost their children during their Israeli army service. This series of interviews delicately reveals the pain of endurance and the ongoing struggle of living after the death of a loved one.<\/p>\n
A Message from the Future: Bosnia Greets Ukraine
\nEdward Serotta, 2022, Austria, 17m
\nBosnian with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>This internationally acclaimed documentary short is an urgent reminder of the lingering scars of history, sending a message of hope and solidarity to contemporary Ukrainians from the Jewish Holocaust survivors, Bosniak Muslims, Serbian Orthodox, and Catholic Croats who worked together in a synagogue to help feed and care for the people of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s when they were under attack.
\nTuesday, January 23 at 8:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
SCHEDULE OF FILMS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nAll screenings are at the Walter Reade Theater unless otherwise indicated.<\/i><\/p>\n
Wednesday, January 10 (Opening Film)
\n<\/b>7:30pm: One Life (110m)<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 11
\n<\/b>2:30pm: Mothers of Today (85m)
\n5:30pm: Stay With Us (93m)
\n8pm: One Life (110m)<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 13
\n<\/b>7pm: The Shadow of the Day (125m)<\/p>\n
Sunday, January 14
\n<\/b>12pm: Mothers of Today (85m)
\n2:45pm: The Shadow of the Day (125m)
\n6:30pm: The Goldman Case (115m)<\/p>\n
Monday, January 15
\n<\/b>1pm: The Books He Didn’t Burn (92m)
\n3:45pm: All About the Levkoviches (85m)
\n6:30pm: Rabbi on the Block (89′)<\/p>\n
Tuesday, January 16
\n<\/b>1pm: All About the Levkoviches (85m)
\n4pm: Rabbi on the Block (89m)
\n7pm: Vishniac (93m)<\/p>\n
Wednesday, January 17 (Centerpiece Film)
\n<\/b>2:30pm: Valeria is Getting Married (76m)
\n5:30pm: Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher (55m)
\npreceded by<\/i> Periphery (28m)
\n8:30pm: Valeria is Getting Married (76m)<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 18
\n<\/b>2:15pm: The Goldman Case (115m)
\n5:30pm: Giado (56′) preceded by <\/i>Crossing the River (30m)
\n8:30pm: No Name Restaurant (120m)<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 20
\n<\/b>7pm: Looking for Chloe (78m)<\/p>\n
Sunday, Jan 21, 2023
\n<\/b>1pm: James Joyce’s Ulysses (88m)
\n3:45pm: Fioretta (127m)
\n7:15pm: Delegation (101m)<\/p>\n
Monday, January 22
\n<\/b>2pm: Delegation (101m)
\n5:30pm: 999: The Forgotten Girls (86m)
\n8:15pm: My Daughter, My Love (94m)<\/p>\n
Tuesday, January 23
\n<\/b>2:30pm: My Daughter, My Love (94m)
\n5:30pm: The Klezmer Project (117m)
\n8:30pm: NYJFF 2024 Shorts Program (TRT: 74m)
\n-Shabbos Goy (5m)
\n-How to Make Challah (12m)
\n-Anyuka (21m)
\n-The Speed of the Distance Between Us (19m)
\n-A Message from the Future (17m)<\/p>\n
Wednesday, January 24 (Closing Night)
\n<\/b>1pm: Remembering Gene Wilder (92m)
\n4pm: Stay with Us (93m)
\n7pm: Remembering Gene Wilder (92m)<\/p>\n
THE JEWISH MUSEUM<\/b><\/span>
\nThe Jewish Museum is an art museum committed to illuminating the complexity and vibrancy of Jewish culture for a global audience. Located on New York City\u2019s Museum Mile, in the landmarked Warburg mansion, the Jewish Museum was the first institution of its kind in the United States and is one of the oldest Jewish museums in the world. The Museum offers diverse exhibitions and programs and maintains a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of art, ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global Jewish experience over more than 4,000 years. The public may visit TheJewishMuseum.org<\/b><\/span><\/a> or call 212.423.3200 for more information.<\/p>\nFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b>Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a vibrant home for film culture to thrive. In state-of-the-art theaters at New York\u2019s prestigious Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, FLC presents film festivals, retrospectives, new releases, restorations, and talks, including the New York Film Festival and New Directors\/New Films. FLC\u2019s year-round programming reflects the extensive diversity of global cinema, offering audiences the opportunity to discover films by established and emerging directors from around the world.<\/p>\nFounded in 1969, FLC is committed to preserving the excitement of the theatrical experience for all audiences, advancing high-quality film journalism through the publication of Film Comment<\/i>, cultivating the next generation of film industry professionals through our FLC Academies, and enriching the lives of all who engage with our programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
@One Life. Courtesy of Bleecker Street Media. THE JEWISH MUSEUM AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCE THE 33RD ANNUAL NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, PRESENTED\u00a0JANUARY 10-24, 2024 Opening Film: One Life\u00a0by James Hawes Centerpiece Film: Valeria Is Getting Married\u00a0by Michal Vinik Closing Film: Remembering Gene Wilder\u00a0by Ron Frank NEW YORK, NY (December 7, 2023) \u2013…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[19803,19804,19807,19805,2149,19798,19806,19808,19793,19800,19810,19811,19812,19813,19442,19815,19801,19795,19814,19816,19797,19796,19799,19809,19802,19794,19817],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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