New Release: Raise the Roof
A New Documentary Film by Yari & Cari Wolinsky
Now on tour!
Philadelphia - May 4 | Boston - May 14
Los Angeles - May 18-19

Raise the Roof recently featured on WCVB Boston Chronicle | Watch Now

Sharon Pucker Rivo honored by
Washington Jewish Film Festival
at Breaking Home Ties event screening | Festival Site

Read feature on Rivo & NCJF in Washington Post | Article

NCJF at Washington DC Jewish Film Festival | Festival Site
• American Matchmaker Starring Leo Fuchs, “Yiddish Fred Astaire”
DC Premiere - NCJF Film Restoration
• Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
Centerpiece screening with Theodore Bikel Live
• Breaking Home Ties – DC Premiere - NCJF Film Restoration
• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

“Je Suis Charlie, Je Suis Juif”
Yves Jeuland’s documentary Being Jewish in France (Comme un Juif en France)
• Upcoming Screening: UK Jewish Film Festival | March 30, 7:15 pm @ JW3
“There's a Yiddish saying: 'Hard to be a Jew'; Jeuland's film adds the qualifier 'in France.' Unlike similar American docs, Being Jewish in France is neither a bittersweet nor a triumphalist tale of adaptation and achievement.” —Village Voice

Don't let history fade away.
Save endangered films.
Support the National Center for Jewish Film with a year end gift.

Watch our toe-tapping video now!

New Release: Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
•Upcoming Screening: April 1, 8:00 pm | The Avalon Theater, Washington DC
San Francisco JFF • Haifa International FF • Australia JFF • Warsaw JFF• Sedona International FF • Las Vegas JFF • San Diego JFF • Chicago Spertus Institute • Palm Beach JFF (CLOSING) • Boulder JFF • Phoenix JFF (CENTERPIECE) • East Bay JFF • Orange County JFF • Hartford JFF • Atlanta JFF (CLOSING) • Washington JFF (CENTERPIECE) • Sarasota JFF (OPENING) • Seattle JFF • Detroit JFF • Houston JFF • Baltimore JFF (OPENING) • Viennale/Austria Film Archive • Westchester JFF

New York Premiere at Lincoln Center
A Child of the Ghetto - New NCJF Digital Restoration
New York Jewish Film Fesival January 2015 | Festival Site
1910 Silent Short Film Directed by D.W. Griffith

Read- Rave review in the New Yorker

In the News: Theodore Bikel
• Mr. Bikel will be making appearances in Phoenix, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Sarasota
• Scottsdale, Arizona declares February 15 "Theodore Bikel Day" celebrating screening at Phoenix Jewish Film Festival and Lifetime Achievement Award  | Link
• Public Radio International Interview with Theodore Bikel | Link

Mamele starring Molly Picon - NCJF Digital Restoration
• “Sparkling gem… Picon is so delicious and quirky, you want to give her a knip in bekl (pinch her cheek).” – Forward
• “Here are words to live by: Anything with Molly Picon is worth seeing. Mamele (is a) marvelous comic melodrama.” – KQED Public Radio
• Indiewire Critics Pick

Mahler on the Couch - On DVD & Blu-ray
A sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna
• "Very witty and erotic” - The Hollywood Reporter
• "An eccentric and expressionistic reverie on love, loss, and the birth of modern marriage." - Village Voice
• "An artfully composed film, framed with aesthetic care and scored with Mahler’s music, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen” - The New York Times

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - On DVD & Blu-ray
• "A fascinating assemblage of interviews, footage, and analysis. It is highly recommended." –Jewish Daily Forward
• "Taking the Banality Out of Evil", Forward | Link
• "...Evil but not Banal", New York Times | Link

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire - On DVD & Blu-ray
A filmmaker in search of his roots becomes an accidental vodka entrepreneur!
• "A barnstorming tale of vodka and revolution." –BBC Radio
• "Charming, inventive and lively." –Time Out London
• "A tender, extraordinary underdog tale filled with humor... A heady delight that will warm your cockles." –Empire Magazine

Kol Nidre (1939) - NCJF Digital Restoration - On DVD & Blu-ray
A bissel of this, a bissel of that, Kol Nidre has a little bit of everything, combining family melodrama and romance with popular songs, cantorial music and comic bits in an inventive pastiche of themes and styles.

Bel Kaufman (1911-2014) Teacher, author, granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem passed away at age 101
Ms. Kaufman is interviewed in NCJF's new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem

Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, Wins Czech Highest Honor!
British diplomat saved 669 Czechoslovak children from the Nazis. The saved children have 5,000 descendants.
Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good

DVD Discounts & Special Offers
VHS to DVD Upgrades
Save up to 50% when you replace VHS tapes in your library with DVDs of the same title.
Special Collections
Women's Studies, Films by Edgar G. Ulmer, Films by Axel Corti & More!

Our RSS Newsfeed
NCJF film coverage from around the world | Subscribe