It's a Wrap! Thanks Boston for another great festival!
Jewishfilm.2012
The National Center for Jewish Film's
15th Annual Film Festival | April 18-29

Jewishfilm.2012 in Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix & Jewish Advocate...

Photo (left): Director Q&A w/Marian Marzynski at the World Premiere of Never Forget to Lie

Opening NYC This Friday - Limited Theatrical Run
Mahler on the Couch
May 18 - May 24
Film Society of Lincoln Center Download Flyer (PDF)
Tickets & Showtimes

Press Reviews & Raves
The Village Voice | Link
Chicago Sun-Times | Link
Chicago Tribune | Link
Jewish Week | Link

Women Unchained - Orthodox Women & Divorce Extortion
Screened with panel discussions: Palm Beach JFF, Washington DC JFF. Pittsburgh JFF, Spertus Center

NYTimes Feature on Women Unchained and agunot | Link
Jerusalem Post Cover Story | Link
Review: The Jewish Forward | Link
Review: The Jewish Week | Link
Review: JUF News | Link

Lincoln Center Premiere - Sold Out
Breaking Home Ties

New NCJF Restoration: 1922 American Silent Film
Only Surviving Print

New York Jewish Film Festival 2012 | Festival Site
Press Release (PDF) | Jewish Forward article | Boston Globe article

MORE NCJF RESTORATIONS

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts | Now on DVD!

" ...a lively, affectionate tribute to Paley as a writer, mother, leftist, daughter of the Bronx, feminist, teacher, wife, pacifist, troublemaker - who was, incidentally, Jewish.” – Washington Post

Top Doc Awards, New York Independent Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary & Documentary Audience Awards

Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray | Now on DVD!

"Fills a good-sized gap in the history of American Jewry… A must-see for all Jewish and American history buffs.” – San Diego Jewish World

Book Now - 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
Nashville Jewish Film Festival American Jewish Historical Society, NYC
North Louisiana Jewish Film Festival Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival

MORE NEW RELEASES

When General Grant Expelled the Jews
New Book Available by NCJF Advisor Jonathan D. Sarna

Available Now from Nextbook Press

Ruth Gruber on NPR's Weekend Edition | Listen Now

Ahead of Time:
The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber | Now on DVD

Museum of Jewish Heritage NYC Benefit Event | Link
Gruber to receive Jewish Week’s Excellence in Journalism Award | Link
Centenary Celebration, Museum of American Jewish History | Link
Ruth Gruber on NBC's Today Show | Link
International Center of Photography Award & Exhibition NYC | Link

Mahler on the Couch | New Release | Book Now

Limited Theatrical Runs: Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York (May 18-24)

Winner - Best Film & Audience Award MRCE Film Festival
Upcoming: Denver Jewish Film Festival
Upcoming: East Bay Jewish Film Festival
Upcoming: Orange County Jewish Film

“Very witty and erotic...” –The Hollywood Reporter

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Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors | Now on DVD

“This is a fascinating, compelling, profoundly disturbing movie that miraculously leaves one agreeing with Lifton that ‘there is room for hope.”
– Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum.”

Huffington Post: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today| Link
NPR: A Century Of Atrocities, Through A Psychiatrist's Eyes | Link

MORE HOLOCAUST RESOURCES

J. Hoberman's Definitive History of Yiddish Cinema is Back in Print

Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
Includes New Chapters & DVD of The Yiddish Cinema

New Releases
Book Now for Film Festival & Screenings

Singing in the Dark
"In this post-Holocaust variation on The Jazz Singer, Moishe Oysher plays a German cantor who loses his family and his memory during the war." - J. Hoberman

Bar Mitzvah
A shund sensation starring Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance! "Lightning bolts of cinematic revelation," -The New Yorker

MORE NCJF RESTORATIONS

Libya The Last Jews of Libya Documentary, 50 min.
Iraq Baklava and the Meaning of Life Documentary, 23 min.
Tunisia Pillar of Salt Drama, 58 min.
Iraq Nana: Un Portrait Documentary, 23 min.
Iraq Braids Drama, 90 min.
Egypt I Miss the Sun Documentary, 20 min.

NCJF archive films in permanent exhibition of two new museums

National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia
Yiddle Home Movies Ben Gurion
Eddie Cantor Soviet Jewry Rally (Pictured at top left)

Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie
Nazi Propaganda film The Führer Gives a City to the Jews (Pictured at bottom left) Warsaw Ghetto Jewish life in Pre-War Bialystok, Vilna, Warsaw, Kurow, Gombin, Novogrodek, Horodok, and the Carpathian Mountains

More than 250 Restored Classics
& New Films Available on DVD

TITLES ON DVD