New York Jewish Film Festival 2025
The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to collaborate once again for the annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), spotlighting the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience.
Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, NYJFF will feature in-person screenings for its 34th edition at Film at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, from January 15 – 29, 2025.
The NYJFF lineup showcases nearly two dozen features, documentaries, and shorts (eight narrative features, 11 documentary features, one miniseries and two short films), including the latest works by dynamic voices in international cinema. Also featured are two historic films including: the 50th anniversary screening of the beloved, recently restored 1975 period drama, Hester Street, directed by Joan Micklin Silver, which brilliantly recreates Jewish immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the century, and features Carol Kane in an Oscar-nominated performance; and Breaking Home Ties, a 1922 classic silent melodrama, once believed lost, which has been digitally restored by the National Center for Jewish Film, and is now presented with a newly recorded score performed by Grammy Award-winning musicians; and The Heiresses, a recently rediscovered and digitally restored drama, directed by Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros, set in Budapest in 1936, in which the luminous Isabelle Huppert plays a young Jewish seamstress recruited by a wealthier friend (Lili Monori) to conceive a baby with her military officer husband.
Visit NYJFF.org for the full 2025 NYJFF screening schedule and tickets.
The films for the 2025 New York Jewish Film Festival have been selected by Rachel Chanoff, Founding Director, THE OFFICE performing arts + film; Lisa Collins, director, writer, special correspondent, programmer, and events/film producer; and Aviva Weintraub, director, New York Jewish Film Festival, the Jewish Museum; with assistance from Cara Colasanti, film festival coordinator, the Jewish Museum.
Support for the New York Jewish Film Festival is provided by Sara and Axel Schupf, Mimi and Barry Alperin, the Liman Foundation, Amy Rubenstein, Louise and Frank Ring, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York, Villa Albertine, and other generous donors.
Midas Man. Courtesy of Signature Entertainment
