New York Jewish Film Festival 2009
An extraordinary international film showcase since 1992, this collaboration between the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates the Jewish experience through dramas and comedies, documentaries, and short films.
Welcome to the 18th 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. A total of 32 films from 15 countries add up to an exhilarating worldwide journey. Many screenings are followed by discussions with directors and other special guests.
This year’s New York Jewish Film Festival was selected by Rachel Chanoff, Independent Curator; Andrew Ingall, Assistant Curator, The Jewish Museum; Richard Peña, Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Aviva Weintraub, Associate Curator and Director of The New York Jewish Film Festival, The Jewish Museum.
Acknowledgements: Daniel Böhm, Gabriela Böhm; Olli Chanoff, Lori Cearley, The Office; Nicola Galliner, Berlin Jewish Film Festival; Faye Ginsburg, NYU Center for Religion & Media; Annette Insdorf, Columbia University; Judy Ironside, UK Jewish Film Festival; Aviva Kempner, Simon Kilmurry, P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc.; Les Rabinowicz, Festival of Jewish Cinema—Australia; Sharon Pucker Rivo, Lisa Rivo, Juliet Burch, National Center for Jewish Film; Sara L. Rubin, Boston Jewish Film Festival; Owen Shapiro, Syracuse International Film Festival; Peter L. Stein, Nancy Fishman, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; Paula Webster; Isaac Zablocki, The JCC in Manhattan; Helen Zuckerman, Stuart Hands, Toronto Jewish Film Festival; 92YTribeca staff; The Film Society of Lincoln Center staff; and the Jewish Museum staff and Festival interns Joseph Valle, Ronit Waisbrod, and Daniel Wentworth.
The New York Jewish Film Festival is sponsored, in part, by The Martin and Doris Payson Charitable Foundation. Generous funding was also provided by The Liman Foundation, The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation, Mimi and Barry Alperin, and other donors. 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. The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs in the USA, the French Embassy, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Czech Airlines, the Swedish Film Institute, and others provided travel assistance.
Media sponsorship provided by Time Warner Cable; partnership support from Nextbook > a new read on Jewish culture.
Still from Emotional Arithmetic, directed by Paolo Barzman, Canada, 2007.
