This year’s Festival presented an engaging lineup of narratives, documentaries, and shorts, from restored classics to world premieres. Highlights included Aulcie, the inspiring documentary about Aulcie Perry, the legendary athlete who put Israeli basketball on the map; The Birch Tree Meadow, an autobiographical film by the late, iconoclastic French New Wave documentarian Marceline Loridan-Ivens, about an Auschwitz survivor confronting her past; and Crescendo, a gripping drama about a conductor’s efforts to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra.

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The New York Jewish Film Festival is made possible by the Martin and Doris Payson Fund for Film and Media.

Generous support is also provided by Wendy Fisher and Dennis Goodman, Sara and Axel Schupf, Louise and Frank Ring, The Liman Foundation, Mimi and Barry Alperin, an anonymous gift, the Ike, Molly and Steven Elias Foundation, Amy and Howard Rubenstein, Robin and Danny Greenspun, Steven and Sheira Schacter, and through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.

Additional support is provided by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Dutch Culture USA, the German Consulate General New York, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.