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sh Film Festival Home Films 1341 Frames of Love and War Hollywood & WWII Jewish Life in Lwow June Zero The Levys of Monticello Life Is All There Is The Light Ahead March ’68 A Night at the Garden Open Secret A Pocketful of Miracles Schächten—A Retribution SHTTL The Trial of Adolf Eichmann Where Life Begins Schedule About About the Festival Ticketing Venues Past Festivals Guests Sponsors NCJF NCJF Home About NCJF Films on DVD Mailing List Sign Up Donate Donate Now NCJF Funders Out of Fest Programs Festival Home Films 1341 Frames of Love and War Hollywood & WWII Jewish Life in Lwow June Zero The Levys of Monticello Life Is All There Is The Light Ahead March ’68 A Night at the Garden Open Secret A Pocketful of Miracles Schächten—A Retribution SHTTL The Trial of Adolf Eichmann Where Life Begins Schedule About About the Festival Ticketing Venues Past Festivals Guests Sponsors NCJF NCJF Home About NCJF Films on DVD Mailing List Sign Up Donate Donate Now NCJF Funders Out of Fest Programs — Click here to visit NCJF’s May 2024 Film Festival website — cover where life with logo cover march with logo cover light ahead with logo The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival May 7-23, 2023 Venue: Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA Thank you for joining us for a vibrant program of new independent films and rare archive treasures from around the world, with visiting filmmakers and scholars. Since 1976, The National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF) has rescued, restored, and exhibited films that document the diversity of Jewish life. Stay up to date on NCJF events – Mailing List Sign up Festival highlights included: Our closing night film on May 23 – A Pocketful of Miracles – the new documentary from filmmaker Aviva Kempner ( Rosenwald, Yoo Hoo Mrs Goldberg, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, Partisans of Vilna ). This New England premiere screening event included a Q&A with Aviva Kempner and Jonathan Kempner moderated by Professor Sabine von Mering . A spotlight on pre-WWII Jewish life in the Ukraine, with a rare opportunity to see NCJF’s new 4K restorations of the Edgar Ulmer-directed 1939 Yiddish film The Light Ahead and the 1939 travelogue Jewish Life in Lwow , alongside the spellbinding new drama SHTTL , audaciously shot in Yiddish, in B&W, in Ukraine, in a single unflinching shot, and set a day before the Nazi invasion in 1941. Two new documentaries showcase the history of film and photography, particularly these mediums’ persuasive power and impact on collective memory: 1341 Frames of Love and War and Hollywood & WWII . The new inventive drama June Zero , set during the 1961 Eichmann trial in Israel, is paired with the elucidating documentary The Trial of Adolf Eichmann about this benchmark historical event. A diverse line-up, from the suspenseful March ’68 , a romance playing out during the student protests and antisemitic purges in 1968 Poland, to a documentary and panel discussion about Thomas Jefferson and the Jewish family that rescued his beloved Monticello . And a special 75th anniversary 35mm screening of the 1948 film noir Open Secret . DocTalk: Five Documentaries Probe the Past at The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival May 7, 2023 | By Peter Keough Four features and one short that explore aspects of Jewish history from its impact on the earliest origins of the United States to the ongoing struggles of the state of Israel. As the name suggests, one of the purposes of documentary film is to document history. It’s a goal admirably fulfilled by these documentaries screening in The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival (through 23 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre), four features and one short that explore aspects of Jewish history from its impact on the earliest origins of the United States to the ongoing struggles of the state of Israel. READ THE FULL ARTICLE Films a - z 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR May 14 HOLLYWOOD & WWII May 10 JEWISH LIFE IN LWOW May 7 JUNE ZERO May 9 THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO May 8 LIFE IS ALL THERE IS May 8 THE LIGHT AHEAD May 7 MARCH ’68 May 7 A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN May 8 OPEN SECRET May 8 SCHÄCHTEN – A RETRIBUTION May 21 A POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES May 23 SHTTL May 10 THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN May 9 WHERE LIFE BEGINS May 14 The National Center For Jewish Film Brandeis University Lown 102, MS053 Waltham, MA 02454 jewishfilm@brandeis.edu © The National Center for Jewish Film Join our Mailing...