Stories from Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival
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An Interview with Tehilim Director, Raphael Nadjari
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Apr 4, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. The 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival was thrilled to welcome Tehilim (2007). An official selection of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Tehilim depicts an ordinary Jerusalem family confronted with the father's mysterious disappearance after a car accident. This perceptive… Full Story »
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An Interview with Israeli Filmmaker David Ofek
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Feb 7, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. This year's festival was proud to open with David Ofek's film, A Hebrew Lesson, which he co-produced with Elinor Kowarsky and Ron Rotem. The film follows various newly-arrived immigrants to Israel whose lives converge in the Hebrew language immersion class which… Full Story »
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NYJFF's QA Session with Joseph Cedar, director of the Oscar-Nominated Beaufort
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 27, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. While receiving much critical attention and praise, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort was acclaimed by The Jerusalem Post as "Israel's first great war movie" as well as recently nominated for the "Best Foreign Language Film" Oscar. This stunning film is set during… Full Story »
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An Interview with Brooklyn Filmmaker Jason Hutt, Director of Orthodox Stance
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 20, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. Orthodox Stance is remarkable documentary which profiles 25-year old Ukrainian immigrant Dmitriy Salita, a prizefighter and observant Orthodox Jew. Only in America could Salita live out such a contradiction as we see him order kosher food in Las Vegas, insist on… Full Story »
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An Interview with Producer Elinor Kowarsky
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 18, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. Producer Elinor Kowarsky discussesA Hebrew Lesson--which played at this year's festival--as well as her recent film9 Star Hotel, a very touching portrait of two Palestinian laborers who cross into Israel illegally to seek employment. What has been the response in Israel… Full Story »
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Film critic J. Hoberman on Carl Dreyer's Love One Another
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 16, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. This year, the New York Jewish Film Festival showed Carl Dreyer's Love One Another (1922). This very rare silent film is a protest against anti-Semitism as it depicts Jewish life confronted by a Russian pogrom. During last Sunday's screening of the… Full Story »
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An Interview with Noah Stollman, Screenwriter of Someone to Run With
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 15, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. Based on the popular Israeli novel by David Grossman, Someone to Run With is set on the streets of Jerusalem as Assaf, a shy 17 year-old boy, tracks down the owner of a lost dog. He eventually stumbles into an underworld… Full Story »
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An Interview with Ilana Trachtman, director of Praying with Lior
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 13, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. Playing on Tuesday at The Jewish Museum is a very compassionate and moving documentary about Lior Liebling, a boy with down syndrome and an ability to pray with abandon. How did you meet Lior? I went to a Rosh Hashanah retreat-a… Full Story »
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An Interview with Noah Harlan, Co-Producer of Tehilim
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 11, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32 dramas, documentaries, and shorts, this year's festival highlights the range of challenging and insightful topics informing the Jewish experience. Above photo: A scene from Tehilim; Bottom photo: Liza Johnson (director, South of Ten) and Noah Harlan with his mom, Elizabeth, at the festival screening of Tehilim. Selected for competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Raphael Nadjari's Tehilim depicts an… Full Story »
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A Wide Spectrum of Filmmakers and Artists Attend NYJFF Opening Night Reception
Celebrating the 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival &bull Jan 10, 2008
This blog is a venue for discovering the films and filmmakers appearing at the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival. The Festival is a collaborative effort of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Presenting 32… Full Story »
