The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 33rd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. The 2024 festival presents a dynamic lineup of 28 films including narratives, documentaries, and shorts with screenings at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.

Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, NYJFF presents the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience.

The 2024 edition will feature in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street. The NYJFF lineup showcases 28 wide-ranging and exciting features, documentaries, and shorts (10 narrative features, 11 documentaries, and seven shorts), including the latest works by dynamic voices in international cinema, as well as the U.S. premiere of a restored 35mm print of a rarely shown 1939 Yiddish classic, Mothers of Today, a domestic melodrama starring 1930s radio star Esther Field as an immigrant widow in New York. 

In the Opening Film, One Life, directed by James Hawes and based on true events, two-time Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins gives an intensely moving performance as Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who during World War II helped Jewish refugee children escape to safety from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. 

In this year’s Centerpiece Film, Valeria Is Getting Married, an acclaimed second dramatic feature by Israeli filmmaker Michal Vinik, the debated ritual of arranged marriages in our contemporary world is explored with sensitivity and complexity. The film focuses on a pair of Ukrainian sisters who come to Israel to start anew only to find themselves questioning their decisions.

The Closing Film, Remembering Gene Wilder, is an enrapturing and heartfelt documentary that takes a close look at the life and career of American original Gene Wilder, beginning with his Jewish upbringing in Milwaukee, including interviews with Alan Alda, Mel Brooks, Carol Kane, Karen Wilder (Gene’s wife), Rain Pryor, and others. Ron Frank’s film shines a light on an essential performer, writer, director, and all-around mensch.

Visit NYJFF.org for the full 2024 NYJFF screening schedule and tickets.