Join us for a vibrant program of new film premieres and rare archive treasures from around the world, with visiting filmmakers and scholars. NCJF’s Annual Festival is an outgrowth of our broader work. Since 1976, The National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF) has rescued, restored, and exhibited films that document the diversity of Jewish life. The Center’s collection of films with Jewish content is one of the world’s largest.

Updates – Tickets:

• • • Only limited tickets remain for We Met at Grossinger’s (April 15)
      

Updates – Guests Added:

• • • Renowned architect Moshe Safdie will be in conversation with Yael Melamede Academy Award-winning director of Ada – My Mother the Architect at the film’s Boston premiere April 19 at the Museum of Fine Arts.

• • • April 12 panel discussion for Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold at the Coolidge Corner Theatre now includes Peabody Award-winning director Abby Ginzberg, Professors Shulamit Reinharz and Joyce Antler moderated by Jewish Women’s Archive CEO Judith Rosenbaum.

Updates – Press:

• • • The Arts Fuse feature by Peter Keough. DocTalk: Documenting Defiance–Two Portraits of Courage at the National Center for Jewish Film Festival. “Claude Lanzmann’s haunted pursuit of testimony and Henrietta Szold’s humanitarian legacy illuminate the enduring power of courage and conscience. Two of the documentaries in this year’s National Center for Jewish Film’s Festival focus on fighters who responded to the evils of a broken world not with despair or compliance but with a fierce commitment to projects that have brought about historic change”: Guillaume Ribot’s All I Had Was Nothingness (April 14 Coolidge Corner Theatre). Abby Ginzberg’s Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold (April 12)

• • • Hey Alma feature story by Emma Kantor about I Have Sinned (April 13 Coolidge Corner Theatre). THIS EARLY YIDDISH FILM IS A RARE PIECE OF JEWISH CINEMATIC HISTORY To witness a movie like “Al Khet” (“I Have Sinned”) is akin to observing a religious rite or holiday.

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