The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF), also known as the Sephardic Film Festival, is an annual New York City
Film festival sponsored by the
American Sephardi Federation. It was founded in 1990. The 20th Anniversary Edition of the festival was from March 30 to April 6, 2017.
The festival showcases films about Jewish communities of the
Mediterranean and
Asia, including
Morocco,
Yemen,
Ethiopia,
Kurdistan,
Iran/
Persia and
India, as well as the
Sephardi descendants of the Jews expelled from
Spain.
The films are part of a movement towards popular narrative movies and more personal documentaries taking advantage of the freedom given by improvements in
video cameras and associated
digital hardware to pursue a more personal on-screen vision of
what it means to be Jewish.
The 2020 festival was held from February 23 to March 2, 2020.
See also
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New York Film Festival
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New York Jewish Film Festival
The New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) is an annual festival in New York City that features a wide array of international films exploring themes related to the Jewish experience. The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center work in ...
References
External links
Official website
1990 establishments in the United States
Arab-American culture in New York City
Asian-American culture in New York City
Cultural festivals in the United States
Ethiopian-American history
Ethiopian-Jewish culture in the United States
Film festivals established in 1990
Film festivals in New York City
Jewish film festivals in the United States
Jews and Judaism in New York City
North African American culture in New York (state)
Sephardi Jewish culture in New York City
Spanish-American culture in New York City
Spanish-Jewish culture in the United States
Yemeni-American culture
Yemeni-Jewish diaspora
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