This empathetic biopic directed by Joe Stephenson and written by Brigit Grant stars a deeply moving Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit) as the mythic Brian Epstein, the Jewish and gay music lover who discovered and then managed the Beatles in the 1960s before his tragic death at age 32.

Filmmaker Dani Rosenberg dives headfirst into the psychological horrors of our contemporary world with this experiential account of a teenager searching for her missing dog in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Israel, shot in late October 2023. Note: some images may be disturbing.

A timely and uplifting evocation of cooperative political protest, Ilana Trachtman’s documentary recalls a crucial 1960 chapter in the Civil Rights Movement when protesting Black students were joined by Jewish locals as they perched defiantly on a merry-go-round in Maryland’s segregated Glen Echo Amusement Park.

In her heartfelt and elegantly made new documentary, Yael Melamede tells the personal story of her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede, a pioneering architect known throughout Israel, inquiring into a family life and professional career that have consisted of difficult choices.

A magnetic Mala Emde portrays Hélène, an aspiring doctor who tries to hide her Jewish identity after arriving in Weimar-era Berlin as a young woman in this gripping adaptation of Julia Franck’s internationally renowned, German Book Prize–winning novel, The Blindness of the Heart. Note: some images may be disturbing; contains a depiction of sexual assault.

In this classic silent melodrama once believed lost, a Russian émigré in New York becomes a successful lawyer. His life takes a difficult turn when his parents follow him from his home country and struggle to adjust to immigrant living. Featuring a new recorded score.

In this enthralling new documentary, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky digs deep into the philosophically abundant inner life of Holocaust survivor and Night author Elie Wiesel, depicted with nuance and tenderness, and enriched by access to his personal archives.

The poignant and revealing Full Support is an entertaining work of nonfiction that takes the viewer into a bra shop in Jaffa, Israel, where a string of women share stories and anxieties about their relationships with their own bodies. Preceded by Kineret Hay-Gillor’s Tattooed4Life.

This deeply emotional and elegantly realized romantic historical drama sensitively sketches the last year in the life of novelist Franz Kafka and the love he experiences with Dora Diamant, a Polish Jewish woman he meets on holiday at the Baltic Sea.

The luminous Isabelle Huppert stars in this recently restored drama from Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros, set in 1936 Budapest, in which she plays a young Jewish seamstress recruited by a much wealthier friend (Lili Monori) to conceive a baby.

One of the most beloved American films of the 1970s, this exquisitely wrought drama from Joan Micklin Silver brilliantly recreates Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century, and features Carol Kane in a delicate, Oscar-nominated performance.

This documentary by Dutch filmmaker Willy Lindwer reveals that the Amsterdam Transit Authority, even in the years after World War II, was soliciting payments from Germany for the public city trams that deported 48,000 Jews, including Anne Frank, to their deaths. Preceded by Yoav Potash’s A Great Big Secret.

Set in Israel’s Bnei Brak, this new film from Jerusalem-born filmmaker Pinhas Veuillet centered around a conflict between the patriarch of a French Sephardic family and the Ashkenazi headmaster at his son’s school.

This intimate documentary portrait brings us into the fast-paced world of Nina Gorodetsky, a champion wheelchair badminton player preparing to represent Israel in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics—while weighing the possibility of having a baby in her late thirties.

Following Israeli and Palestinian subjects working toward connection and hope rather than division and bloodshed, Joy Sela’s documentary shares the voices of peace activists on both sides—humans fighting for the dignity and equality of all in the wake of deeply tragic personal loss. Note: some images may be disturbing.

In this delightful and humorous personal documentary, Nili Tal defiantly traces her own mission to find new romance as a sixtysomething divorcée with grandchildren. NYJFF presents this retrospective screening in tribute to its veteran director, who died in March 2024.

The ongoing dilemmas around the reclamation, ownership, and exhibition of art looted by the Nazis during WWII form the center of Jamie Kastner’s absorbing documentary about the legacy of Max Stern, a German Jewish art dealer who escaped to Canada in 1937.

French writer-director Julien Carpentier’s searing family comedy stars a fierce Agnès Jaoui as a woman who reunites with her 33-year-old son after having escaped from a clinic where she was being treated for bipolar disorder.

Living precariously in a beautiful but dangerous city in Colombia that has been rocked by escalating unrest and drug war violence, Orthodox Jewish converts Isska and Menajem desire to emigrate to Israel with their two young daughters.

The first feature-length documentary about the extraordinary Polish Jewish painter Tamara de Lempicka, whose enduring work is beloved by art collectors the world over, Julie Rubio’s film provides an essential and riveting account of a woman who defied all rules.

Presented in six episodes, this novelistic, expansive series is a comic-dramatic, multigenerational saga following the travails of an extended Jewish family sorting out the future of its vast delicatessen empire in contemporary Germany that maintains a vivid, humorous tone throughout.