Special Presentations

Karaoke (Opening Night)

Meir and Tova are an Israeli married couple, prematurely aged by their semi-retired life of banal comfort. When a sexy bachelor moves into the penthouse, all their routines will be gleefully upended.

Let It Be Morning (Closing Night)

A wedding brings a middle-class Palestinian businessman and his family back to the small Arab village where he grew up. An unexpected military lockdown forces him to reassess his past and confront his future.

Bernstein's Wall (Centerpiece Documentary)

Leonard Bernstein’s life journey defined his role as one of America’s most important musical figures, while fighting to create social change and inspire political activism.

Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (Centerpiece Narrative)

In this transfixing wartime drama starring Daniel Auteuil, a Parisian jewelry shop under Nazi occupation becomes the site of a volatile, domestic secret between three ordinary people.

Freedom of Expression Award: Sergei Loznitsa

JFI is proud to present the 2022 Freedom of Expression Award to Sergei Loznitsa, the director of "Babi Yar. Context ". Over the past 20 years, Ukrainian-born Loznitsa has produced a powerful body of award-winning documentary and narrative films that explore how “when memory turns into oblivion, when the past overshadows the future, it is the voice of cinema that articulates the truth.”

My Name is Andrea (Local Spotlight)

Decades before #MeToo, controversial Jewish Feminist Writer and public intellectual, Andrea Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture with revolutionary and iconoclastic flair.

Remember This

The brilliant David Strathairn gives a mesmerizing one-man performance as Jan Karski, a WWII Polish resistance fighter, whose testimony was emotionally given in Claude Lanzmann’s "Shoah."

Simchas and Sorrows (Next Wave Spotlight)

A quirky comedy about a former Catholic school girl turned atheist who wrestles with an unplanned pregnancy, a proposal and pressure from her future in-laws to convert to Judaism.

To the End (Take Action Spotlight)

The story of four remarkable young women of color, including U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, fighting for a Green New Deal and a historic shift in U.S. climate politics.

The U.S. and the Holocaust (Special Preview)

The role of the United States before, during, and after one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history is explored in this three-part documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein.