The New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) is returning to Lincoln Square this month, giving audiences the opportunity to explore the Jewish experience through films from around the world. Now in its 35th year, NYJFF is co-presented by the Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center. From Wednesday, January 14 to Wednesday, January 28, audiences can see a lineup of nearly 30 features, documentaries, and shorts being shown at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue).
NYJFF opens with Once Upon My Mother, a French film that follows the matriarch of a Moroccan Jewish family in the Parisian suburbs who will do anything to give her son the best life, despite his physical setbacks. This film is sold out, but standby tickets may be available at the box office before the screening. The centerpiece film of NYJFF is director Guillaume Ribot’s documentary All I Had Was Nothingness, which pays homage to the groundbreaking 1985 film Shoah, about the Holocaust. There are also many films making their New York City premiere, including Mazel Tov (pictured), in which a son learns his estranged father has died just as he’s about to travel from the US back to Argentina for his sister’s wedding in an alternately touching and raucous story of familial dysfunction.
Tickets are available at nyjff.org, with general admission priced at $19; $16 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $14 for members of Film at Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum. Keep in mind that opening film tickets are slightly more expensive. You can also see more and save with the 3+ Film Package.
See Jewish artistry, history, and culture in a new light through the stories at NYJFF, among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals in the world.
Photo Credit: Mazel Tov, Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center
