NEW FEATURE FILM
Camera Obscura
(Argentina)
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More

NEW FEATURE FILM
Father's Footsteps
(France/Israel)
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More

NEW NCJF RESTORATION WITH NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Bar Mitzvah
(USA, 1935)
Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. More

SOCIAL CHANGE DOCUMENTARY
Bewoket: By the Will of God
(USA)
In 1990, Dr. Rick Hodes went to Ethiopia to set up medical clinics. He never left. "Dr. Rick" treats thousands of Ethiopians, among them a group of boys who live with him. An Orthodox Jew, he typifies the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam ("repairing the world"). More

SOCIAL CHANGE DOCUMENTARY
Forgotten Children
(Australia)
Amid the crisis surrounding the education of Aboriginal children in Australia, there is a ray of hope. The unlikely source: Israeli teachers. Follow a team of Israeli educators as they bring a new method for teaching at-risk kids to the Australian outback. More

FESTIVAL & THEATRICAL HIT
Being Jewish in France
(France)
Yves Jeuland's sweeping documentary explores the rich and complex history of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--is fast becoming the definitive film on the topic. More

SEPHARDIC MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Fiestaremos!
(USA)
Judy Frankel was one of the leading collectors and practitioners of Sephardic folk music. Fiestaremos! includes interviews with Frankel, musical excerpts and performances in an intimate look at Frankel and Sephardic music and songs. More

THEATER/ PERFORMING ARTS DOCUMENTARY
Rachel de la Comédie-Française
(France 2003)
Before the era of Sarah Bernhardt, Rachel Felix (1821-1858) was the great actress of the Comédie-Française-and the first international dramatic star. Small, plain and fierce, Rachel's ability to convey passion in her performances thrilled audiences. More

FOR INSTITUTIONAL DVD SALE
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
(Israel, 2009)
Produced for the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa explores the city's history. Israeli TV celebrity Modi Bar-On hosts this fast-paced film which uses archival film and photos intercut with those of contemporary Tel Aviv.More

PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
Next Year in... Argentina
(Israel)
Argentinean-born Israeli filmmakers Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky met in Buenos Aires before both men immigrated to Israel. 30 years later, they take up the question of Jewish-Argentine history, identity and attitudes toward Israel.More

NEW PURCHASE
The House on August Street
(Israel 2007)
The remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. More

Settlement
(USA 2008)
Twelve years after the release of his landmark film Shtetl, Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of European cinéma-vérité, returns to one of his favorite subjects - the mystery of survival during the Holocaust. More

RE-RELEASE: FEATURE FILM CLASSICS
The Axel Corti Collection
(Austria)
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore, Santa Fe, and Welcome in Vienna comprise a trilogy of films directed by Axel Corti and written by Georg Stefan Troller. The films are loosely based on Troller’s life as a Viennese Jew who fled Europe as a teenager, emigrated to the United States, and returned to Europe during World War II as an American soldier. More

ISRAELI FEATURE FILM
Dear Mr. Waldman
(Israel 2006)
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust. More

GROUND-BREAKING DOCUMENTARY
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
(Germany 2005)
Malte Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947. More

FOR ROSH HASHANAH PROGRAMMING
Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy
(USA 2006)
Iconic filmmaker Paul Mazursky chronicles his journey to Uman, Ukrane, the site of a unique annual gathering of Jewish men making pilgrimages to the burial place of Rabbi Nachman. More

ART AND THE HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTARY
Multiply by Six Million
(USA 2007)
This short film is the culmination of Evvy Eisen's fifteen-year long project photographing Holocaust survivors and collecting their stories. More

NCJF 35MM RESTORATION
The Jester
Der Purimspiler (USA 1937)
THE JESTER's lively circus and vaudeville music and set pieces provide a glimpse of Warsaw's then-thriving Yiddish revues and cabarets, which were destroyed soon after. More

NCJF 35MM RESTORATION
His Wife's Lover
Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik (USA 1931)
Billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture," His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz in his only film performance. This fast-paced comedy revels in its role reversals and love triangles. More

NCJF 35MM RESTORATION
The Cantor's Son
Dem Khazns Zundyl (USA 1937)
This toe-tapping Yiddish musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher in the title role critic J. Hoberman calls the “anti-Jazz Singer.” Leaving behind his Shtetle Belz for New York's Lower East Side, Sol eventually lands the American dream, becoming a popular singer and radio star. More

Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema
(Australia)
A funny, penetrating look at how the loving and affectionate portrayals in early Yiddish and Hollywood silent movies developed into the Jewish Mother of modern Hollywood and, conversely, the more flesh and blood characterizations in contemporary Israeli cinema.More

The Last Marranos
(France)
Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals. More

The Secret
(Israel/Poland)
Through accidental discovery or deathbed confessions many Catholic Polish citizens have made an unsettling discovery: they were born Jewish. These “new Jews" must decide what this new truth means to them, as Poles and as Jews. More

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