New York Jewish Film Festival 1999
We are delighted to welcome you to the Eighth Annual New York Jewish Film Festival — a collaboration between The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
This year’s festival offers twenty-four illuminating views of the Jewish experience, presented in a diverse array of films that range from the epic sweep of Joseph Vilsmaier’s The Harmonists to the intensely personal documentary of Sini Bar-David’s The South: Alice Never Lived Here. We have invited filmmakers from Finland to the Mississippi Delta to join us, and each brings a unique vision to the festival. Please share our celebration of Jewish history and culture through the enriching experience of this year’s festival films.
This festival was organized by a committee consisting of Rachel Chanoff, Film Festival Curator; Leslie Friedman, Festival Coordinator; J. Hoberman, Senior Film Critic, The Village Voice; Richard Peña, Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Jack Salzman, The New York Council for the Humanities; and Aviva Weintraub, Director of Media and Public Programs, The Jewish Museum.
This international festival has been made possible by generous gifts from The Martin and Doris Payson Charitable Foundation, The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Promotional support has been provided by Time Warner Cable.
Still from Left Luggage, Jeroen Krabbe, 1997. Credit: Shooting Star/Flying Dutchman / The Kobal Collection
Films
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Still from Left Luggage, Jeroen Krabbe, 1997. Credit: Shooting Star/Flying Dutchman / The Kobal Collection
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Still from The Harmonists, Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997. Credit: Miramax Films / The Kobal Collection / Petro Domenigg
