New York Jewish Film Festival 2002
We are delighted to welcome you to the Eleventh Annual New York Jewish Film Festival – a collaboration between The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
This year’s collection of unique cinematic perspectives, set everywhere from Turkey to Tel Aviv to Costa Rica to right here in New York, reflects the magnificent diversity of the Jewish experience. The themes and forms of these works are as wide-ranging as their locales, with pieces like The Walnut Tree, a dreamlike experimental short about Holocaust remembrance, alongside the Parisian romantic comedy Once We Grow Up and important documentaries like Brownsville Black and White. The vibrant Argentinian Jewish cinema also gives us four compelling contributions – including an Argentinian/American co-production To Live with Terror, a fascinating investigation of the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in the 1990s. The collective body of work on display here offers a provocative contemplation not only of Jewish culture but also, significantly and necessarily, of the human condition as a whole. Please join us for eleven splendid days of celebration and exploration at the 2002 New York Jewish Film Festival.
This festival was organized by a committee consisting of Rachel Chanoff, Chair, Film Festival Selection Committee; J. Hoberman, Senior Film Critic, The Village Voice; Richard Peña, Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Mohini Sara Shapero, Film Festival Coordinator; and Aviva Weintraub, Director of Media and Public Programs, The Jewish Museum.
This international festival is made possible by generous support from The Martin and Doris Payson Charitable Foundation, The Liman Foundation, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mimi and Barry Alperin and other funders.
Still from One of the Hollywood Ten. Karl Francis, England/Spain, 2000
