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New York Jewish Film Festival

Charlotte Salomon and her grandparents before 1940. (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 20, 2023, 5:11 am
New film brings to life a young Auschwitz victim’s extraordinary mixed media display
While hiding from the Nazis, Charlotte Salomon made ‘Life? Or theatre?’, a series of paintings set to music and words
By Sarah Rosen
'Nuremberg' filmmaker Stuart Schulberg, right, looks at film with Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, center, in this still from the new documentary 'The Lost Film of Nuremberg' by Sandra Schulberg. (Courtesy/ New York Jewish Film Festival)
January 13, 2022, 2:12 am
Everyone can kvetch and kvell at the hybrid in-person/online NY Jewish Film Festival
Festival director Aviva Weintraub says even Omicron won’t keep the show from going on January 12-25; audiences will be on the edge of their seats – at Lincoln Center or at home
By Jordan Hoffman
Assi Cohen, left, as Broide, and Daniella Kertesz as Anna in 'Autonomies.' (Courtesy)
January 21, 2019, 3:51 pm
Dystopian drama ‘Autonomies’ stands on its own at NY Jewish Film Festival
By the creator of ‘Shtisel,’ the six-part series depicts an Israel officially divided after bitter civil war turns the country into walled-off religious and secular states
By Jordan Hoffman
“Mr. Gaga” plays at the New York Film Festival on Jan. 12, 2017. (Gadi Dagon)
January 12, 2017, 11:35 am
5 standouts from the New York Jewish Film Fest
Annual festival started Wednesday, features 2 weeks of flicks ranging from the uniting power of hummus to the last days of Yitzhak Rabin
By Gabe Friedman
Rav Avraham Sutton and 'Kabbalah Me' director Steven Bram learning Jewish mysticism in a cave. (courtesy)
November 2, 2014, 4:06 am
Secular Jewish filmmaker challenges rabbis to ‘Kabbalah Me’
Director Steven Bram’s journey to Jewish mystical enlightenment was born amid a post-9/11 mid-life existential crisis
By Deena Yellin
'Hava Nagila (The Movie)' portrays the classic Jewish tune as a porthole into 200 years of Jewish culture and spirituality. (Courtesy of 'Have Nagila The Movie' via JTA)
January 15, 2013, 3:25 pm
Film follows ‘Hava Nagila’ from shtetl to staple
New documentary explores Hasidic song’s unlikely journey from pogrom-plagued Ukraine to Bob Dylan concerts and Olympic gymnastics routines
By Chavie Lieber
The winner of three awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, "Policeman" focuses on an Israeli anti-terrorism unit and wealthy young anarchists trying to unleash chaos. (Courtesy of NYJFF)
January 9, 2013, 5:59 pm
Semitic cinema invades Manhattan
Opening Wednesday, the New York Jewish Film Festival features a lineup ranging from respectful dramas to Hebraic horror
By Jordan Hoffman
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