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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!

Punk Jews | New Film Release

Upcoming: Philadelphia Premiere - Hidden City Festival (June 11) | Tickets
Recently Seen: Rockland Jewish Film Festival | Tickets
New! NYTimes Article: Moshiach Oi! & Punk Jews | Read Article
Huffington Post video interview with filmmakers | Watch Now

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

Never Forget to Lie | New Release - Just Announced
70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Emmy Award winning director Marian Marzynski explores his own wartime childhood in Poland where survival began with the directive "never forget to lie."
New! JTA Article: Acclaimed Filmmaker Turns Camera on Self | Read Article

Kol Nidre | NCJF New Film Restoration

NCJF New Restoration of 1939 Yiddish Film

Recently Seen: Rockland Jewish Film Festival (Apr. 18)
Recently Seen: USA Premiere: New York Jewish Film Festival (Jan. 2013)
Recently Seen: Jerusalem Cinematheque (Jan. 2013)

Green Fields
Upcoming Screening: Washington DC JFF Event - (May 21) | Tickets

Bar Mitzvah
God, Man & Devil
Long is the Road
Overture to Glory
The Singing Blacksmith
Upcoming Screenings:
Medias Central European Film Festival - (June 23-29) | Tickets

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

Mahler on the Couch

Boca Raton, FL - Living Room Theaters (Opening May 3) | Buy Tickets

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Nahum N. Glatzer & The German-Jewish Tradition (USA)
Filmmaker Judith Glatzer profiles her father, the prominent Jewish Studies scholar Nahum Glatzer.

Yizkor (USA)
Academy Award™ winning short film is a story of resilience in the face of crushing loss.

Das Kind (France)
Irma Miko: Romanian Communist activist, WWII French Resistance participant.

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!

Breaking Home Ties (1922 Silent Feature Film)
Restored from the only surviving 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

More than 250 Restored Classics & New Films Available on DVD! | TITLES ON DVD