Mamele - starring Molly Picon

New Digital Restoration - World Premiere
Jerusalem International Film Festival (July 7 & 8) | Tickets
Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo and Lisa Rivo
NCJF's 23rd consecutive year premiering at the festival.

NCJF at Outside of the Box
Saturday, July 20 – Modern Theatre at Suffolk University | Info

7:00pm "Scenes from the Archives of The National Center for Jewish Film"
8:00pm “King of the Schnorrers” - Robert Brustein & Hankus Netsky's new klezmer musical

Free admission. Tickets currently all reserved, standby line at 7pm for unclaimed tickets.

Special Jewishfilm.2013 Encore Screenings in July

The Dandelions
Thursday July 25, 8:00 pm | Buy Tickets Sunday July 28, 1:00 pm | Buy Tickets
Boston French Film Festival at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"Sweetly entertaining." –Variety

2013 NEW RELEASE – Book Now for Festival & Event Screenings

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
New documentary directed by Michael Prazan

"A fascinating assemblage of interviews, footage, and analysis. It is highly recommended." –Jewish Daily Forward

Breaking Home Ties

1922 Silent Feature Film
Restored from the only surviving print!

Next Screening: Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Israel - (July 13) | Link

Kol Nidre

1939 Yiddish Musical Drama

World Premiere - Jerusalem International Film Festival
Europe Premiere - Stockholm Jewish Film Festival
USA Premiere - New York Jewish Film Festival

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How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire | New Film Release

"A barnstorming tale of vodka and revolution." –BBC Radio
"Charming, inventive and lively." –Time Out London

Film Festival Favorite! New York, Boston, Philly, Washington & More!

NCJF has received a NEA grant for $75,000 in support of a planned major retrospective of Yiddish Cinema to be mounted at the Film Forum in NYC followed by an international tour.

NCJF was highlighted on the NEA blog Art Works!
Spotlight on NCJF: Interview with NCJF's Lisa Rivo

NCJF receives Commendation Award
from Boston Society of Film Critics

BSFC: "Sharon Rivo and Lisa Rivo of the National Center for Jewish Film, for their annual restoration of classic features, which are then shown in the Boston area and around the world." | Link

Bar Mitzvah
God, Man & Devil
Long is the Road
Overture to Glory
The Singing Blacksmith
Recently Seen:
Medias Central European Film Festival - (June) | Details

Uncle Moses
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Chicago Yivo Society Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture - (June/July) | Details

Laughter Through Tears
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Toronto Film Society with live music - (June 2) | Tickets

New Releases
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Women Unchained | Orthodox Women & Divorce Extortion

Film helps propel major policy shift - More rabbis now requiring prenuptial agreements | Read Reviews from the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Press and More!

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

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

Singing in the Dark (1956 American Drama)
"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 (1935 Yiddish Feature Film)
A shund sensation starring Boris Thomashefsky with "lightning bolts of cinematic revelation!" -The New Yorker

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