New York Jewish Film Festival 2007
A Preeminent Showcase for World Cinema Featuring Documentaries, Dramas, Comedies, and Animation-Features and Shorts!
Welcome to the 16th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), a preeminent showcase for movies that illuminate the worldwide Jewish experience. Journey on film from pre-Soviet St. Petersburg to sophisticated Paris. Get to know the charismatic Moishe Oysher, trying to reconcile a career in show biz with his cantorial calling… unlikely friends in a remote Swedish town struggling with love… and Toots Shor, the infamous New York saloon keeper who became den mother to Frank Sinatra, Joe Dimaggio, and Richard Nixon. In this collaboration of The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, 31 films are presented – dramas, documentaries, shorts, comedies – in which Jewish life in all its startling and complex variety is up on the screen to enjoy. Often, NYJFF films go on to be cherished by larger audiences. Among the festival movies that have had recent theatrical runs are A Cantor’s Tale, La Petite Jerusalem, and Wondrous Oblivion.
Selection Committee: Rachel Chanoff, Independent Curator; Andrew Ingall, Assistant Curator, The Jewish Museum; Richard Peña, Program Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center; Aviva Weintraub, Associate Curator and Director of the NYJFF, The Jewish Museum.
The New York Jewish Film Festival is made possible by a lead grant from The Martin and Doris Payson Charitable Foundation.
Additional funding is provided by the Liman Foundation, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, Mimi and Barry Alperin, The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs in the USA, the French Embassy, and other donors.
Our thanks to The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and Corona Extra for their generous assistance.
Still from My Mexican Shiva. Alejandro Springall, Mexico, 2006, 102 min., Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish, with English subtitles.
