2009 NYJFF Schedule
About The New York Jewish Film Festival
The New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) is a preeminent showcase for world cinema that investigates, records, and celebrates the Jewish experience. Founded in 1992, the annual Festival is a collaboration between The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The New York Jewish Film Festival presents a diverse program of narrative features, documentaries, and short films, including world, United States, and New York premieres.
Numerous films that have appeared in the Festival have subsequently achieved national theatrical releases and/or wider distribution on American public television. These films have included At Home in Utopia (dir. Michal Goldman, NYJFF 2009), Being Jewish in France (dir. Yves Jeuland, NYJFF 2009), Empty Nest (dir. Daniel Burman, NYJFF 2009), Academy Award nominee Beaufort (dir. Joseph Cedar, NYJFF 2008), Orthodox Stance (dir. Jason Hutt, NYJFF 2008), Praying with Lior (dir. Ilana Trachtman, NYJFF 2008), My Mexican Shivah (dir. Alejandro Springall, NYJFF 2007), The Rape of Europa (dirs. Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newnham, NYJFF 2007), Live and Become (dir. Radu Mihaileanu, NYJFF 2006), and Academy Award winner Nowhere in Africa (dir. Caroline Link, NYJFF 2003).
A distinguishing feature of the Festival's program is thematic sidebar presentations, which often include premieres of restored archival prints and screenings in conjunction with Jewish Museum exhibitions.
L to R: Beaufort, Orthodox Stance, Praying with Lior, The Rape of Europa, My Mexican Shivah, and Live and Become.
The 2009 New York Jewish Film Festival is sponsored, in part, by The Martin and Doris Payson Charitable Foundation. Generous funding was also provided by The Liman Foundation, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation, Mimi and Barry Alperin, and other donors. Additional support has been provided through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs in the USA, the French Embassy, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Czech Airlines, the Swedish Film Institute, and others provided travel assistance.
Media sponsorship provided by Time Warner Cable; partnership support from Nextbook > a new read on Jewish culture.
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