The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center will once again collaborate for the 34th annual New York Jewish Film Festival on January 15-29, 2025. The New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) will present documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. NYJFF will feature in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater located at 165 West 65th Street.
In addition to nearly two dozen features, documentaries and shorts, two historic films will have anniversary screenings. The 1975 period drama HESTER STREET and silent melodrama from 1922, BREAKING HOME TIES will screen.
Opening night of the festival MIDAS MAN about Brian Epstein, the visionary who discovered and managed the Beatles, will be the feature. "Directed by Joe Stephenson and written by Brigit Grant, the film features a deeply moving Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen's Gambit) as Epstein, with a cast that includes Jonah Lees as John Lennon, Blake Richardson as Paul McCartney, Emily Watson and Eddie Marsan as Epstein's parents, and Jay Leno as Ed Sullivan.”
"In this year's Centerpiece Film, Of Dogs and Men, filmmaker Dani Rosenberg dives headfirst into the psychological horrors of our contemporary world with this experiential account of a teenager named Dar (Ori Avinoam), who returns home to her kibbutz searching for her missing dog in the aftermath of Hamas' October 7 attacks in Israel, filmed in late October 2023. Of Dogs and Men takes a humanist approach to the ongoing conflict, reckoning with both the horrifying losses within her Jewish community and the imminent tragic violence of retribution in Gaza."
"The Closing Film, Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round, is 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. Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round reminds viewers of the importance of collaboration and humility in the face of injustice and features a voice-over cast that includes Mandy Patinkin, Jeffrey Wright, and Dominique Thorne, among others."
Tickets will go on sale December 19 at noon, with an early access period for Film at Lincoln Center and Jewish Museum Members on December 17 at noon. Tickets can be purchased at
nyjff.org.
SCHEDULE OF FILMS
All films screen at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th Street)
Wednesday, January 15 (Opening Night)
7:30pm: Midas Man (112m)
Thursday, January 16
2:15pm: Midas Man (112m)
5:30pm: Nina Is an Athlete (72m)
8:00pm: Midas Man (112m)
Saturday, January 18
7:00pm: Hester Street (89m)
Sunday, January 19
12:00pm: Breaking Home Ties (78m)
2:30pm: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire (88m)
5:30pm: Lost City (91m) preceded by A Great Big Secret (13m)
Monday, January 20
1:00pm: Sixty and the City (70m)
3:30pm: Torah Tropical (100m)
6:30pm: Blind at Heart (137m)
Tuesday, January 21
1:00pm: Lost City (91m) preceded by A Great Big Secret (13m)
4:30pm: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire (88m)
7:30pm: The Spoils (104m)
Wednesday, January 22
2:00pm: Blind at Heart (137m)
5:30pm: The Other (100m)
8:30pm: Ada: My Mother the Architect (82m)
Thursday, January 23 (Centerpiece)
2:30pm: This Is My Mother (104m)
5:30pm: Full Support (71m) preceded by Tattooed4Life (30m)
8:30pm: Of Dogs and Men (80m)
Saturday, January 25
7:00pm: This is My Mother (104m)
Sunday, January 26
12:15pm: The Zweiflers, eps. 1-3 (150m)
3:30pm: The Zweiflers, eps. 4-6 (150m)
Monday, January 27
1:00pm: Neither Day Nor Night (105m)
4:00pm: The Glory of Life (98m)
7:00pm: Neither Day Nor Night (105m)
Tuesday, January 28
3:00pm: The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & The Art of Survival (96m)
5:45pm: The Glory of Life (98m)
8:30pm: The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & The Art of Survival (96m)
Wednesday, January 29 (Closing Night)
1:00pm: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (90m)
3:30pm: The Spoils (104m)
7:00pm: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (90m)