New York Jewish Film Festival
Event Date
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Campus
Location
Online and live at Lincoln Center in New York
The NYFA community has received a discount code for The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center's 31st annual New York Jewish Film Festival, screening virtually and in person January 12-25. They are proud to bring a slate of engaging narratives, documentaries, and shorts from around the world that explore the Jewish experience to our local community.
The discount code NYJFF2022 ($5 off in person screenings, 20% off virtual screenings).
Below are highlighted some of the films our students might be interested in:
- Virtual: Nine women of divergent backgrounds enroll in a video production seminar with the common goal of self-expression through their cameras in Cinema Sabaya. Featuring a mix of seasoned and nonprofessional actors playing the students (all shooting and presenting their own footage), Cinema Sabaya offers a deft portrait of art’s capacity to unite disparate communities.
- Virtual: Short Films on Creativity, featuring films like stop-motion animation The Violin Upstairs (NY premiere) which recounts the provenance of her beloved violin, from its origins in 18th-century Austria to its present existence in San Francisco; and Lily, which traces the origin story of Lily Renée—perhaps the first female comic-book artist, gifting the world with strong female personages—from her escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna to life in New York City where she still resides at the venerable age of 100.
- Virtual and In-person: Grossman, preceded by The Last Chapter of A.B. Yehoshua, where in the latter “the Israeli Faulkner” shares his late-period reflections, emerging as a living testament to wholehearted engagement with the world. In Grossman, Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman speaks eloquently on the nexus of art and existence.
- Virtual: Labyrinth of Peace, a six-part miniseries in which three young people with bold plans in post-WWII Switzerland are faced with the bitter realities of lingering anti-Semitism, unpunished war crimes, and the primacy of profit over human life, forcing them to acknowledge that war leaves no one untouched and prosperity nearly always comes at a price.