New York Jewish Film Festival 2008
A celebration of cinematic brilliance! Welcome to the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, a global survey of innovative and provocative films—most receiving their New York or U.S. premieres— that explore the multi-faceted Jewish experience.
Welcome to the 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, a global survey of innovative and provocative films—most receiving their New York or U.S. premieres—that explore the multi-faceted Jewish experience. To mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, this year’s festival showcases ten new Israeli films. A festival-within-the-festival presents four masterpieces by the late Austrian stage, television, and film director Axel Corti. A total of 32 shorts, dramas, and documentaries from Germany, Hungary, the US, Mexico, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, and Austria add up to an exhilarating worldwide journey.
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 sponsored, in part, by The Martin and Doris Payson Charitable Foundation.
Additional support has been provided through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Generous funding has also been provided by The Liman Foundation, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation, Mimi and Barry Alperin, and The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs in the USA.
The Israeli films in the festival are presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel.
