
New York Jewish Film Festival 2024
The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 33rd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience.
James Hawes
2023|
U.K.|
109 minutes
In this vivid and stirring drama, based on true events, Sir Anthony Hopkins gives an intensely moving performance as Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who during World War II helped Jewish refugee children escape to safety from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Michal Vinik
2023|
Israel / Ukraine|
76 minutes|
Hebrew, Russian, and English with English subtitles
Israeli filmmaker Michal Vinik explores with sensitivity and complexity the debated ritual of arranged marriages in our contemporary world, focusing on a pair of Ukrainian sisters who have come to Israel to start anew only to find themselves questioning their decisions.
Ron Frank
2023|
U.S.|
92 minutes
This enrapturing and heartfelt documentary takes a close look at the life and career of American original Gene Wilder, beginning with his Jewish upbringing in Milwaukee. Interviews include Mel Brooks, Carol Kane, and Rain Pryor.
Heather Dune Macadam
2023|
U.S.|
86 minutes
A documentary of deep research and vivid detail, 999: The Forgotten Girls sheds light on the wrenching true story of the nearly 1,000 young Slovak Jewish women who, told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment, were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz in 1942. Note: some images may be disturbing.
Adam Breier
2024|
Hungary|
85 minutes|
Hungarian and Hebrew with English subtitles
Told with delightfully mordant humor and a genuine warmth, this appealing domestic comedy-drama from Hungarian filmmaker Adam Breier follows an estranged father and son on the winding path toward reconciliation.
Claus Bredenbrock
2023|
Germany|
92 minutes|
English, French, and German with English subtitles
This gripping, provocative documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, follows eminent historian Timothy W. Ryback as he examines Adolf Hitler’s private library, much of which is currently housed in Washington D.C. at the Library of Congress. Note: some images may be disturbing.
Asaf Saban
2023|
Israel / Poland / Germany|
101 minutes|
Hebrew with English subtitles
A trio of Israeli high school friends reckon with the past and their unknown future while on a class trip to Poland visiting Nazi-era Holocaust sites in this work of stirring drama and striking realism by filmmaker Asaf Saban.
Matthew Mishory
2023|
U.S. / Czech Republic|
127 minutes
This enthralling and personal documentary about the depths and expanses of Jewish history follows Randy Schoenberg, a Los Angeles–based genealogist and attorney who specializes in recovering Nazi-looted art, and his teenage son, Joey, as they embark on a quest to trace their family lineage.
Sharon Yaish
2023|
Israel|
56 minutes|
Hebrew and Italian with English subtitles
In their deeply personal documentary, Sharon Yaish and Golan Rise use personal history to expose 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. Preceded by Allan Novak’s Crossing the River.
Cédric Kahn
2023|
France|
115 minutes|
French with English subtitles
This gripping courtroom drama, directed with vérité realism by Cédric Kahn, delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman, a left-wing activist defending himself against multiple charges, including murder during an armed robbery.
Adam Low
2022|
U.K.|
88 minutes
Adam Low’s engaging documentary plumbs the depths of James Joyce’s monumental 1922 work of literature, the experimental novel with a Jewish protagonist at its center—initially banned in the U.S. for obscenity, and now regarded as one of the most groundbreaking, game-changing books ever written.
Leandro Koch
2023|
Austria / Argentina|
117 minutes|
Spanish, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Romanian, English, and German with English subtitles
In this inventive, entirely unexpected delight from filmmakers and real-life romantic partners Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann, a Buenos Aires wedding documentarian and a Klezmer band clarinetist collaborate on a documentary about the music they both love.
Isabelle Cottenceau
2023|
France|
78 minutes|
French and English with English subtitles
This colorful, immersive documentary tells the history of Gaby Aghion, the Egyptian Jewish woman who founded the revolutionary French fashion house Chloé.
Henry Lynn
1939|
U.S.|
85 minutes|
Yiddish with English subtitles
In this restoration of a classic from 1939, screening on 35mm, audiences have the delightful chance to witness a rare big-screen appearance of Esther Field.
Eitan Green
2023|
Israel / France|
94 minutes|
French and Hebrew with English subtitles
During a trip to Paris, Israeli widower Shimon (played by Sasson Gabai) visits his daughter, Alma, and her husband, Dori, whose marriage seems fraught with tension, launching a drama of profound truths, penetrating the foibles and difficulties we face in talking about parenting, relationships, love, and family.
Stefan Sarazin
2022|
Germany|
120 minutes|
Hebrew, Arabic, and English with English subtitles
In this spirited and absurdist culture-clash comedy, two men of different strict religious faiths—a lost and befuddled ultra-Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn and a dyspeptic but helpful Bedouin man—must work together to survive in the Sinai Desert.
Brad Rothschild
2023|
U.S.|
89 minutes
This gripping documentary feature follows Tamar Manasseh, a Black Jewish rabbi and community activist from Chicago’s South Side who has devoted her career to creating a bridge between the city’s Black and Jewish communities as she extends her activism, receives rabbinic ordination, and continues to inspire.
Giuseppe Piccioni
2022|
Italy|
125 minutes|
Italian with English subtitles
A gripping tale of love against odds set in late 1930s Italy, The Shadow of the Day follows a provincial restaurant owner and fascist sympathizer who falls for a mysterious young woman who arrives at his doorstep looking for work.
2023|
Israel|
56 minutes|
English, Dutch, and Hebrew with English subtitles
David Ofek’s engaging documentary excavates the history of Baruch Spinoza, a Jewish Portuguese philosopher of the Enlightenment period who was excommunicated by Amsterdam’s Jewish authorities in 1656 when the community’s leaders believed his questioning of Jewish belief had crossed the line into heresy. Preceded by Sara Yacobi-Harris’s Periphery.
Gad Elmaleh
2022|
France|
93 minutes|
French with English subtitles
A delicate topic often unexplored on screen is treated with humor, irreverence, and complexity in comedian-filmmaker Gad Elmaleh’s autobiographical comic drama about a French Jewish man who shocks his family when he decides to convert to Catholicism.
Laura Bialis
2023|
U.S.|
93 minutes
Laura Bialis’s penetrating documentary looks at the complicated life of the legendary photographer Roman Vishniac, from his early years in czarist Russia to his now-iconic 1930s images of Eastern European Jews on the precipice of destruction to his pioneering work in microscopic photography.
Adam Goott
U.K., U.S., Israel, Austria|
74 minutes
Featuring Adam Goott and Alex Szlezinger’s Shabbos Goy, Sarah Rosen’s How to Make Challah, Maya Erdelyi’s Anyuka, Yuval Shapira’s The Speed of the Distance Between Us, and Edward Serotta’s A Message from the Future: Bosnia Greets Ukraine.
The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 33rd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. The 2024 festival presents a dynamic lineup of 28 films including narratives, documentaries, and shorts with screenings at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
NYJFF is organized by Rachel Chanoff, Lisa Collins, Indigo Sparks, and Aviva Weintraub, with Dan Sullivan as advisor and assistance from Cara Colasanti.

Film at Lincoln Center receives generous, year-round support by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Film at Lincoln Center. Additional support is provided by the Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation.
For those interested in additional information about NYJFF titles, please refer to the Print Source guide.



























