PJFF Festival Archive
PJFF CineMondays 2018
April 9 – May 14, 2018
- An Act of Defiance (Jean van de Velde | South Africa/Netherlands | 2017)
- The Cousin (Tzahi Grad | Israel | 2017)
- GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II (Lisa Ades | USA | 2017)
- Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger | USA/Israel/Japan/South Korea | 2017)
- The Last Suit (Pablo Solarz | Spain/Argentina | 2017)
- Mr. & Mrs. Adelman (Nicolas Bedos | France/Belgium | 2017)
PJFF37
November 4 – 19, 2017
- Across the Waters (Nicolo Donato | Denmark | 2016)
- All These Voices (David Henry Gerson | USA | 2015)
- Anna (Or Sinai | Israel | 2015)
- A Bag of Marbles (Christian Duguay | France/Canada/Czech Republic | 2017)
- Be Happy Tonight (Leah Tonic | Israel | 2016)
- Ben-Gurion, Epilogue (Yariv Mozer | Israel/France/Germany | 2016)
- The Bloom of Yesterday (Chris Kraus | Austria/Germany/France | 2016)
- Body and Soul: An American Bridge (Robert Philipson | USA | 2016)
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean | USA | 2017)
- The Cakemaker (Ofir Raul Graizer | Germany/Israel | 2017)
- The Children of Chance (Malik Chibane | France | 2016)
- A Children’s Song (Shayna Cohen | USA | 2015)
- The Chop (Lewis Rose | UK | 2015)
- Cloudy Sunday (Manousos Manousakis | Greece | 2015)
- Dimona Twist (Michal Aviad | Israel | 2016)
- The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel (Yonatan Nir | Israel | 2016)
- Family Commitments (Hanno Olderdissen | Germany | 2015)
- The Field (Mordechai Vardi | Israel | 2017)
- Harmonia (Ori Sivan | Israel | 2016)
- Holy Air (Shady Srour | Israel | 2017)
- Jewish Blind Date (Anaëlle Morf | Switzerland | 2015)
- Keep the Change (Rachel Israel | USA | 2017)
- Let Yourself Go (Francesco Amato | Italy | 2017)
- Little Stones (Sophia Kruz | USA/Brazil/Germany/India/Kenya/Senegal | 2017)
- Love Is Thicker Than Water (Emily Harris and Ate de Jong | UK/Netherlands | 2016)
- Monsieur Mayonnaise (Trevor Graham | Australia/Germany/France/USA | 2016)
- More Alive Than Dead (Tzachi Schiff | Israel/Argentina/France/USA/UK | 2017)
- Mr. Bernstein (Francine Zuckerman | Canada | 2016)
- Mr. Gaga (Tomer Heymann | Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands | 2015)
- My Art (Laurie Simmons | USA | 2016)
- My Hero Brother (Yonatan Nir | Israel/India | 2016)
- Near Normal Man (Charlene Stern | USA | 2017)
- Saving Neta (Nir Bergman | Israel | 2016)
- The Testament (Amichai Greenberg | Austria/Israel | 2017)
- Wig Shop (Kat Coiro | USA | 2016)
PJFF CineMondays 2017
March 20 – May 8, 2017
- 1945 (Ferenc Török | Hungary | 2016)
- Big Sonia (Todd Soliday and Leah Warshawski | USA | 2016)
- Fanny’s Journey (Lola Doillon | France/Belgium | 2016)
- In Between (Maysaloun Hamoud | Israel | 2016)
- *Joe’s Violin (Kahane Cooperman | USA | 2016)
- Norman (Joseph Cedar | USA/Israel | 2016)
- The Women’s Balcony (Emil Ben-Shimon | Israel | 2016)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (2017)
PJFF36
November 5-19, 2016
- And Then, Violence (Jordan Goldnadel | France | 2016)
- Bar Mitzvah Project (Benji Elkins | USA | 2016)
- By Sidney Lumet (Nancy Buirski | USA | 2015)
- Café Nagler (Mor Kaplansky and Yariv Barel | Israel | 2015)
- Eva Hesse (Marcie Begleiter | USA/Germany | 2016)
- Every Face Has a Name (Magnus Gertten | Sweden | 2015)
- Facing the Wall (Alamork Marsha | Israel/Ethiopia | 2015)
- The Fine Line (Dana Lerer | Israel | 2015)
- The Freedom to Marry (Eddie Rosenstein | USA | 2016)
- Germans & Jews (Janina Quint | USA | 2016)
- A Grain of Truth (Borys Lankosz | Poland | 2015)
- *Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding | USA | 1932)
- Havana Curveball (Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider | USA | 2014)
- Hounds (Omer Tobi | Israel | 2015)
- Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (Gregory Monro | USA/France | 2016)
- Karski & the Lords of Humanity (Slawomir Grunberg | Poland/Russia/USA | 2015)
- Keep Quiet (Sam Blair and Joseph Martin | UK/Hungary | 2016)
- The Kozalchic Affair (Ron Ninio | Israel/Poland | 2015)
- The Last Blintz (Dori Berinstein | USA | 2015)
- The Last Laugh (Ferne Pearlstein | USA | 2016)
- The Last Mentsch (Pierre-Henry Salfati | Germany/Switzerland/France | 2014)
- The Man Who Shot Hollywood (Barry Avrich | Canada/USA | 2016)
- Moos (Job Gosschalk | Netherlands | 2016)
- Mussa (Anat Goren | Israel/Ethiopia | 2015)
- One Week and a Day (Asaph Polonsky | Israel | 2016)
- Operator (Ben Hakim | Israel | 2016)
- The Origin of Violence (Élie Chouraqui | France/Germany | 2016)
- Sand Storm (Elite Zexer | Israel | 2016)
- Shalom Italia (Tamar Tal Anati | Israel/Germany | 2016)
- Song of Songs (Eva Neymann | Ukraine | 2015)
- Supergirl (Jessie Auritt | USA | 2016)
- The Tenth Man (Daniel Burman | Argentina | 2016)
- Women in Sink (Iris Zaki | Israel/UK | 2015)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Picture (1932)
PJFF CineMondays 2016
March 28 – May 23, 2016
- Carvalho’s Journey (Steve Rivo | USA | 2015)
- Demon (Marcin Wrona | Poland/Israel | 2015)
- In Search of Israeli Cuisine (Roger Sherman | USA | 2016)
- Most Likely to Succeed (Greg Whiteley | USA | 2015)
- The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume | Germany | 2015)
- Presenting Princess Shaw (Ido Haar | Israel | 2015)
- Wedding Doll (Nitzan Giladi | Israel | 2015)
PJFF35
November 7 – 21, 2015
- Almost Friends (Nitzan Ofir | Israel | 2014)
- The Autobiography of a ‘Jeep’ (Irving Lerner | USA | 1943)
- A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt (Kai Christiansen | Germany | 2014)
- Dear God (Guy Nattiv and Erez Tadmor | Israel | 2014)
- Deli Man (Erik Greenberg Anjou | USA | 2014)
- The Divorce (Danny Scheinmann and David Scheinmann | UK | 2014)
- Dough (John Goldschmidt | UK/Hungary | 2015)
- East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem (Henrique Cymerman and Erez Miller | Israel | 2014)
- Forbidden Films (Felix Moeller | Germany | 2014)
- Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher | USA | 1980)
- Gitel (Robert Mullan | UK/Lithuania | 2015)
- A Good Story (Martin Christopher Bode | Germany | 2013)
- Great (Andreas Henn | Germany | 2013)
- The Incident (El incidente) (Isaac Ezban | Mexico | 2014)
- The Law (La Loi) (Christian Faure | France | 2014)
- Longing (Bracha Yaniger | Israel | 2014)
- Natasha (David Bezmozgis | Canada | 2015)
- The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (William Gazecki | USA | 2014)
- Partner with the Enemy (Duki Dror and Chen Shelach | Israel | 2014)
- Projections of America (Peter Miller | Germany/USA/France | 2014)
- Red Leaves (Bazi Gete | Israel | 2014)
- Short on Cash (Nadav Shlomo Giladi | Israel | 2014)
- Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (Abby Ginzberg | South Africa/USA | 2014)
- The Tailor (Gordon Grinberg | USA | 2011)
- Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (John Lollos | USA | 2014)
- To Life (À la vie) (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | France | 2014)
- Very Semi-Serious (Leah Wolchok | USA | 2015)
- Zemene (Melissa R. Donovan | USA | 2014)
PJFF35 Pre-Fest
October 10 – 12, 2015
- Brundibar Revisited (Douglas Wolfsperger | Germany/Czech Republic | 2014)
- Imber’s Left Hand (Richard Kane | USA | 2012)
- Sabena Hijacking: My Version (Rani Sa’ar | Israel | 2015)
- To Life! (Auf das Leben!) (Uwe Janson | Germany | 2014)
PJFF CineMondays 2015
March 23 – May 4, 2015
- The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid | Israel/France | 2014)
- Mr. Kaplan (Álvaro Brachner | Spain/Uruguay/Germany | 2014)
- The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer (Shaul Betser and Asaf Galay | Israel | 2014)
- Once in a Lifetime (Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France | 2014)
- Raise the Roof (Yari Wolinsky | USA/Poland | 2015)
- Touchdown Israel (Paul Hirschberger | USA/Israel | 2014)
PJFF34
November 1 – 16, 2014
- 24 Days (Alexandre Arcady | France | 2014)
- 70 Hester Street (Casimir Nozkowski | USA | 2014)
- Above and Beyond (Roberta Grossman | UK/Israel/USA | 2014)
- Anywhere Else (Ester Amrami | Germany | 2014)
- The Best of Men (Tim Whitby | UK | 2012)
- Court (Dekel Nitzan | Israel | 2012)
- The Dove Flyer (Nissim Dayan | Israel | 2013)
- Etgar Keret: What Animal Are You? (Gur Bentwich | Israel | 2012)
- Famous Nathan (Lloyd Handwerker | USA | 2014)
- The Goldfish (Mathieu Young | USA | 2013)
- Hanna’s Journey (Julia von Heinz | Germany/Israel | 2013)
- Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent (Rachel Eskin Fisher and Rachel Pasternak | USA | 2013)
- A Knock on the Door (Eliran Elya | Israel | 2013)
- *The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke | Canada/USA/UK | 2014)
- Lookout (Noa Gusakov | Israel | 2014)
- Regarding Susan Sontag (Nancy D. Kates | USA | 2014)
- Rock in the Red Zone (Laura Bialis | Israel | 2014)
- Run Boy Run (Pepe Danquart | Germany/France/Poland | 2013)
- Siren (Jonah Bleicher | France/Israel/USA | 2013)
- The Sturgeon Queens (Julie Cohen | USA | 2014)
- What About Me? (Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen | Israel | 2008)
- What Do We Have in Our Pockets? (Goran Dukic | USA/Israel | 2013)
- What Do We Have in Our Pockets? (Shira Geffen | Israel | 2012)
- What Do We Have in Our Pockets? (Jonathan Bentovim and Emily Harris | UK | 2012)
- Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop (Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg | USA | 2013)
- Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie | Israel | 2014)
- The Zigzag Kid (Vincent Bal | Netherlands/Belgium/UK/Spain/France | 2012)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (2014)
PJFF34 Pre-Fest
September 27 – 29, 2014
- Auschwitz on My Mind (Assaf Machnes | Israel/Poland/UK | 2013)
- The Funeral (Nick Green | UK | 2013)
- Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion (Shimmy Marcus | UK | 2012)
- Heavy Duty (Nir Saar and Maya Sarfaty | Israel | 2014)
- I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked (Yuval Hameiri | Israel | 2012)
- I’m a Mitzvah (Benjamin Berman | USA/Mexico | 2014)
- Little White Lie (Lacey Schwartz | USA | 2014)
- Lost Town (Richard Goldgewicht and Jeremy Goldscheider | USA | 2013)
- The Man Who Buried His Own Leg (Sarah Lefton | USA | 2014)
PJFF CineMondays 2014
March 10 – April 28, 2014
- Closed Season (Franziska Schlotterer | Germany/Israel | 2012)
- Fading Gigolo (John Turturro | USA | 2013)
- For a Woman (Diane Kurys | France | 2013)
- Friends from France (Philippe Kotlarski and Anne Weil | France/Canada/Russia/Germany | 2013)
- *Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski | Poland/Denmark/France/UK | 2013)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2015)
PJFF33
November 2 – 16, 2013
- Aftermath (Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Poland/Russia/Netherlands | 2012)
- An American Tail (Don Bluth | USA | 1986)
- *Aya (Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis | France/Israel | 2012)
- Bethlehem (Yuval Adler | Israel/Germany/Belgium | 2013)
- Commie Camp (Katie Halper | USA | 2013)
- The Dandelions (Carine Tardieu | France | 2012)
- God’s Neighbors (Meni Yaesh | Israel | 2012)
- Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta | Germany/Luxembourg/France/Israel | 2012)
- Igor & the Cranes’ Journey (Evgeny Ruman | Israel/Germany/Poland | 2012)
- The Jewish Cardinal (Ilan Duran Cohen | France | 2013)
- Koch (Neil Barsky | USA | 2012)
- My Awkward Sexual Adventure (Sean Garrity | Canada | 2012)
- Not Your Time (Jay Kamen | USA | 2010)
- One Day After Peace (Erez Laufer and Miri Laufer | Israel | 2012)
- Orchestra of Exiles (Josh Aronson | USA/Israel | 2012)
- Paris-Manhattan (Sophie Lellouche | France | 2012)
- Red Flag (Alex Karpovsky | USA | 2012)
- Rock the Casbah (Yariv Horowitz | Israel/France | 2012)
- Sukkah City (Jason Hutt | USA | 2013)
- Welcome & Our Condolences (Leonid Prudovsky | Israel | 2012)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (2015)
PJFF33 Pre-Fest
October 13 – 16, 2013
- 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (Steven Pressman | USA | 2013)
- Crime After Crime (Yoav Potash | USA | 2011)
- Noodle (Ayelet Menahemi | Israel | 2007)
PJFF32
Fall Festival: November 3-18, 2012
Docs & Dialogue: January 7 – February 4, 2013
New Filmmakers Weekend: April 20-21, 2013
- B-Boy (Lisa Cohen | USA | 2011)
- Circus Kids (Alexandra Lipsitz | Israel/USA | 2010)
- The Day I Saw Your Heart (Jennifer Devoldère | France | 2011)
- Deaf Jam (Judy Lieff | USA | 2011)
- Downtown Express (David Grubin | USA | 2011)
- Free Men (Ismaël Ferroukhi | France | 2011)
- Have Nagila: The Movie (Roberta Grossman | USA/Ukraine/Israel | 2012)
- How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire (Dan Edelstyn | UK/Ukraine | 2012)
- Joanna (Feliks Falk | Poland | 2010)
- Joe Papp in Five Acts (Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen | USA | 2010)
- Kaddish for a Friend (Leo Khasin | Germany | 2012)
- La suerte en tus manos (All In) (Daniel Burman | Argentina/Spain | 2012)
- Life in Stills (Tamar Tal | Israel/Germany | 2011)
- The Lying Game (L’infiltré) (Giacomo Battiato | France | 2011)
- Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions (Duki Dror | Israel/Germany | 2011)
- My Dad Is Baryshnikov (Moy papa Baryshnikov) (Dmitry Povolotsky | Russia | 2011)
- Not Your Time (Jay Kamen | USA | 2010)
- OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie (Bud Clayman, Glenn Holsten and Scott Johnston | USA | 2010)
- Omar Killed Me (Roschdy Zem | France/Morocco | 2011)
- Orbit (Jessica Dorfman | USA | 2011)
- Room 514 (Sharon Bar-Ziv | Israel | 2012)
- Six Million and One (David Fisher | Israel/Austria/Germany/USA | 2011)
- Soldier/Citizen (Silvina Landsman | Israel | 2012)
- Sorry, Rabbi (Mark Slutsky | Canada | 2011)
- Strange Fruit (Joel Katz | USA | 2002)
- White: A Memoir in Color (Joel Katz | USA | 2012)
- Woody Before Allen (Masha Vasyukova | France/Russia/USA/Germany | 2011)
PJFF31
Fall Festival: November 5-19, 2011
Docs & Dialogue: January 9 – February 6, 2012
Film Connects: February 12, 2012
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 17-19, 2012
upStarts: An Evening of Jewish Shorts: May 5, 2012
- Berlin ’36 (Kaspar Heidelbach | Germany | 2009)
- Crime After Crime (Yoav Potash | USA | 2011)
- Eichmann’s End (Raymond Ley | Germany | 2010)
- Grandmothers (Avós) (Michael Wahrmann | Brazil | 2009)
- Grandpa Looked Like William Powell (David B. Levy | USA | 2010)
- I Miss You (Te Extraño) (Fabián Hofman | Argentina/Mexico/Uruguay | 2010)
- Inventing Our Lives: The Kibbutz Experiment (Toby Perl Freilich | USA/Israel | 2010)
- Invisible (Lo Roim Alaich) (Michal Aviad | Israel/Germany | 2011)
- Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (Peter Miller | Canada/USA |2010)
- Just Like Home (Alexander Gentelev | Israel/Russia | 2009)
- Little Rose (Różyczka) (Jan Kidawa-Blonski | Poland | 2010)
- The Lives and Times of Abraham Kahn (Yaron Dahan | Israel | 2009)
- Louder Than a Bomb (Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel | USA | 2010)
- My Best Enemy (Mein Bester Feind) (Wolfgang Murnberger | Austria/Luxembourg | 2011)
- My So-Called Enemy (Lisa Gossels | USA | 2010)
- Nicky’s Family (Matej Minac | Slovakia/Czech Republic | 2011)
- On Leave (Regila) (Asaf Saban | Israel | 2009)
- Prisoner of Her Past (Gordon Quinn | USA | 2010)
- Remembrance (Die Verlorene Zeit) (Anna Justice | Germany | 2011)
- Restoration (Boker Tov Adon Fidelman) (Yossi Madmoni | Israel | 2011)
- The Round Up (La Rafle) (Rose Bosch | France/Germany/Hungary | 2010)
- Seltzer Works (Jessica Edwards | USA | 2010)
- Starring David (David de Ster) (Ester Gould | Netherlands | 2010)
- *Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon | USA/Israel | 2010)
- To Kill a Bumblebee (Laharog Devora) (Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon | Israel | 2010)
- Transparent Black (Roni Geffen | Israel | 2010)
- Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story (Scott Goldstein | USA | 2008)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (2011)
PJFF30
Fall Festival: November 6-21, 2010
Docs & Dialogue: January 10 – February 7, 2011
New Filmmakers Weekend: April 9-11, 2011
- Against the Tide (Richard Trank | USA | 2009)
- Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber (Robert Richman | USA/Israel | 2009)
- *Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani | Germany/Israel | 2009)
- Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (Marsha Zur Glozman and Yonathan Zur | Israel | 2009)
- Anita (Marcos Carnevale | Argentina | 2009)
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi | Canada | 2008)
- Breaking Upwards (Daryl Wein | USA | 2009)
- The Clown and the Führer (Eduard Cortés | Spain | 2007)
- Eli & Ben (Ori Ravid | Israel | 2008)
- Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (Joann Sfar | France | 2010)
- Holy Rollers (Kevin Asch | USA | 2010)
- In Search of Memory (Petra Seeger | Austria | 2009)
- The Infidel (Josh Appignanesi | UK | 2010)
- Killing Kasztner (Gaylen Ross | USA | 2008)
- The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground (Erik Greenberg Anjou | USA | 2010)
- Mary and Max (Adam Elliot | Australia | 2009)
- A Matter of Size (Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor | Israel/Germany/France | 2009)
- **The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith | USA | 2009)
- Nora’s Will (Mariana Chenillo | Mexico | 2008)
- Phyllis and Harold (Cindy Kleine | USA | 2008)
- Protektor (Marek Najbrt | Czech Republic/Germany | 2009)
- Saviors in the Night (Ludi Boeken | Germany/France | 2009)
- Simon Konianski (Micha Wald | France/Belgium/Canada | 2009)
- Yolki Palki (Alexander Gentelev | Israel | 2007)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2010)
**Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (2010)
PJFF29
Fall Festival: October 24 – November 14, 2009
Docs & Dialogue: January 11 – February 15, 2010
New Filmmakers Weekend: May 1-3, 2010
- $9.99 (Tatia Rosenthal | Australia/Israel | 2008)
- Arab Labor (Ron Ninio | Israel | 2006)
- B-2247: A Granddaughter’s Understanding (Sara Greenberg | USA | 2009)
- Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn (Ragnar Freidank | USA | 2008)
- The Beetle (Yishai Orian | Israel | 2008)
- Being Jewish in France (Yves Jeuland | France | 2007)
- The Brothers Warner (Cass Warner | USA | 2008)
- The Camera Obscura (María Victoria Menis | Argentina/France | 2008)
- Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell (David Blumenfeld and Matthew Kalman | Israel | 2008)
- Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story (Julian Shaw | Australia | 2007)
- The Deal (Steven Schachter | Canada/USA/South Africa | 2008)
- The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian Rainforest (Lorry Salcedo Mitrani | USA | 2008)
- Fugitive Pieces (Jeremy Podeswa | Greece/Canada | 2007)
- The Gift to Stalin (Rustem Abdrashev | Kazakhstan/Russia/Poland/Israel | 2008)
- Gruber’s Journey (Radu Gabrea | Hungary/Romania | 2008)
- HAG: The Story of the Hasidic Actors’ Guild (Yisrael Lifschutz | USA | 2008)
- Heart of Stone (Beth Toni Kruvant | USA | 2009)
- Inheritance (James Moll | USA | 2006)
- The Little Traitor (Lynn Roth | Israel/USA | 2007)
- Look Into My Eyes (Naftaly Gliksberg | Israel | 2008)
- Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (Wendy Keys | USA | 2008)
- Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes (Christian Delage | France | 2006)
- Nymphs in the Mist (Yoram Sachs | Israel | 2007)
- Off and Running (Nicole Opper | USA | 2009)
- Shadows in Paradise: Hitler’s Exiles in Hollywood (Peter Rosen | USA | 2008)
- Shmul Kaplan (Michael Wong | USA | 2008)
- Sketches of Frank Gehry (Sydney Pollack | Germany/USA | 2005)
- Srugim (Eliezer “Laizy” Shapira and Hava Divon | Israel | 2008)
- Tickling Leo (Jeremy Davidson | USA | 2009)
- A Touch Away (Ron Ninio | Israel | 2006)
- Two Lives Plus One (Deux vies…plus une) (Idit Cebula | France | 2007)
- Villa Jasmin (Férid Boughedir | France | 2008)
- The Wave (Dennis Gansel | Germany | 2008)
- The Wedding Song (Karin Albou | France/Tunisia | 2008)
- William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | USA | 2009)
- Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (Freida Lee Mock | USA | 2006)
PJFF28
Opening Weekend: November 1-3, 2008
Docs & Dialogue: November 17, 2008 – April 6, 2009
Sports Weekend: December 6-7, 2008
French Weekend: January 10-12, 2009
Documentary Weekend: February 7-9, 2009
American Weekend: February 28 – March 2, 2009
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 21-23, 2009
Closing Weekend: April 18-19, 2009
- 888-Go-Kosher (Lauren Shweder Biel | USA | 2008)
- Amos Oz (Stelios Charalampopoulos | Greece | 2008)
- Anne and the Reverend (Anne et le révérend) (François Uzan | France | 2008)
- Arranged (Diane Crespo and Stefan C. Schaefer | USA | 2007)
- At Home in Utopia (Michal Goldman | USA | 2008)
- Black Over White (Tomer Heymann | Israel | 2007)
- Constantine’s Sword (Oren Jacoby | USA | 2007)
- Emotional Arithmetic (Paolo Barzman | Canada | 2007)
- Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (Scott Hicks | Australia/USA | 2007)
- Holy Land Hardball (Erik Kesten and Brett Rapkin | USA | 2010)
- In a Dream (Jeremiah Zagar | USA | 2008)
- Jerusalem Is Proud to Present (Nitzan Giladi | Israel | 2008)
- The Kiddush Man (Yitz Brilliant | USA | 2008)
- Like Your Father (Comme ton père) (Marco Carmel | France | 2007)
- Love Comes Lately (Jan Schütte | Germany/Austria/USA | 2007)
- Max Baer’s Last Right Hook (Avida Livny | Israel | 2006)
- Max Minsky and Me (Anna Justice | Germany | 2007)
- My Father My Lord (David Volach | Israel | 2007)
- Noodle (Ayelet Menahemi | Israel | 2007)
- Orthodox Stance (Jason Hutt | USA | 2007)
- Praying with Lior (Ilana Trachtman | UK | 2008)
- Refusenik (Laura Bialis | USA | 2007)
- A Secret (Un secret) (Claude Miller | France | 2007)
- The Secrets (Avi Nesher | France/Israel | 2007)
- Strangers (Guy Nattiv and Erez Tadmor | Israel/France | 2007)
- Surfwise (Doug Pray | USA | 2007)
- A Trip to Prague (Neil Needleman | USA | 2006)
- Two Ladies (Dans la vie) (Philippe Faucon | France | 2007)
PJFF27
Opening Weekend: November 10-12, 2007
Docs & Dialogue: November 19, 2007 – April 14, 2008
Israeli Weekend: December 15, 2007 – February 11, 2008
Music Weekend: January 19-21, 2008
French Weekend: March 1 – May 5, 2008
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 22-24, 2008
- Aviva, My Love (Shemi Zarhin | Israel | 2006)
- Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi) (Roschdy Zem | Belgium/France | 2006)
- Beethoven’s Hair (Larry Weinstein | UK/Canada/Czech Republic | 2005)
- Code Name: Bayonet (Ron Maiberg | Israel | 2006)
- Enough (Zoe Greenberg | USA | 2007)
- Family Hero (Le héros de la famille) (Thierry Klifa | France | 2006)
- The First Basket (David Vyorst | USA | 2008)
- Gorgeous! (Comme t’y es belle!) (Lisa Azuelos | UK/Luxembourg/France/Belgium | 2006)
- A Hebrew Lesson (David Ofek | Israel | 2006)
- A Hero in Heaven (Sally Mitlas | USA | 2007)
- Ilona, Upstairs (Melissa Hammel | USA | 2004)
- In Treatment (Hagai Levi | Israel | 2005)
- Judy Toll: The Funniest Woman You’ve Never Heard of (Gary Toll | USA | 2007)
- Knowledge Is the Beginning (Paul Smaczny | Germany | 2005)
- Love & Dance (Eitan Anner | Israel | 2006)
- Making Trouble (Rachel Talbot | USA | 2007)
- My Mexican Shivah (Alejandro Springall | Mexico/USA | 2007)
- Spielberg on Spielberg (Richard Schickel | USA | 2007)
- Stealing Klimt (Jane Chablani | UK | 2007)
- *Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story (Nathaniel Kahn | USA | 2006)
- Unsettled (Adam Hootnick | USA | 2007)
- **West Bank Story (Ari Sandel | USA | 2005)
- The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Hamburger | Brazil | 2006)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (2007)
**Winner – Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (2007)
PJFF26
Opening Weekend, November 4-6, 2006
Docs & Dialogue: November 20, 2006 – March 12, 2007
Swedish Weekend: January 27 – March 12, 2007
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 24 – April 16, 2007
French Weekend: April 21 – May 7, 2007
- Blues by the Beach (Joshua Faudem | USA | 2004)
- California Shmeer (Richard Goldgewicht and Alan H. Rosenberg | USA | 2006)
- A Cantor’s Tale (Erik Greenberg Anjou | USA | 2005)
- Close to Home (Karov La Bayit) (Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hager | Israel | 2005)
- Drink to Forget (Bere per dimenticare) (Michele Calabresi, Patrick Heeren and Carla Molino | Italy | 2005)
- Ethics on the Edges of Life (Andrew Perlmutter | USA | 2006)
- Family Law (Daniel Burman | Argentina/Italy/Spain/France | 2006)
- The First Time I Turned Twenty (La première fois que j’ai eu 20 ans) (Lorraine Lévy | France | 2004)
- Four Weeks in June (Henry Meyer | Sweden | 2005)
- Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School (Irena Fayngold | USA | 2005)
- Janem Janem (Haim Bouzaglo | Israel | 2005)
- Kz (Rex Bloomstein | UK | 2006)
- Little Jerusalem (La Petite Jérusalem) (Karin Albou | France | 2005)
- Love Iranian-American Style (Tanaz Eshaghian | USA | 2005)
- Mame-Loshn, Kinder-Loshn (Tommy Schwarcz and Avi Lehrer | Israel | 2002)
- Matzo & Mistletoe (Kate Feiffer | USA | 2006)
- Nina’s House (La maison de Nina) (Richard Dembo | France | 2005)
- Nina’s Journey (Lena Einhorn | Poland/Sweden | 2005)
- Princesse Marie (Benoît Jacquot | Austria/France | 2004)
- Queen of the Mountain (Martha Goell Lubell | USA | 2005)
- The Substitute (Talya Lavie | Israel | 2005)
- The Tribe (Tiffany Shlain | USA | 2005)
- The Upside of Memory (Jeanette Lerman | USA | 2006)
- When Silence Sings (Irina Goldstein | Germany | 2005)
PJFF25
Opening Weekend, November 5-7, 2005
Docs & Dialogue: November 21, 2005 – April 17, 2006
Festival: December 17, 2005 – May 8, 2006
Hungarian Weekend: January 28-30, 2006
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 18, 2006
French Weekend: April 21 – May 7, 2007
- All My Loved Ones (Matej Minac | Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland | 1999)
- Awake Zion (Monica Haim | USA | 2003)
- Checking Out (Jeff Hare | USA | 2005)
- Coney Island 1945 (Jeremiah Zagar | USA | 2005)
- Facing Arthur (Stefan Knerrich, Michael Rey and Amy Rubin | USA | 2002)
- Fateless (Lajos Koltai | Hungary/Germany/UK/Israel/France/USA | 2005)
- Gloomy Sunday (Rolf Schübel | Germany/Hungary | 1999)
- Go for Zucker (Alles auf Zucker!) (Dani Levy | Germany | 2004)
- Keep Not Silent (Ilil Alexander | Israel | 2004)
- Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens) (Radu Mihaileanu | France/Israel/Belgium/Italy | 2005)
- Lost Embrace (Daniel Burman | Argentina/France/Italy/Spain | 2004)
- Only Human (Seres queridos) (Teresa Pelegri and Dominic Harari | Spain/Argentina/Portugal/UK | 2004)
- Princesse Marie (Benoît Jacquot | Austria/France | 2004)
- Protocols of Zion (Marc Levin | USA | 2005)
- Purity: Breaking the Codes of Silence (Anat Zuria | Israel | 2002)
- Rachel, quand du seigneur (Sidney Lumet | USA | 2004)
- Rashevski’s Tango (Sam Garbarski | Belgium/Luxembourg/France | 2003)
- The Ritchie Boys (Christian Bauer | Canada/Germany | 2004)
- *Sister Rose’s Passion (Oren Jacoby | USA | 2004)
- The Tollbooth (Debra Kirschner | USA | 2004)
- Watermarks (Yaron Zilberman | Israel/USA/France/Austria | 2004)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (2005)
PJFF24
Opening Weekend, November 13-15, 2004
Docs & Dialogue: November 29, 2004 – May 2, 2005
Festival: January 8 – April 18, 2005
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 12-14, 2005
- Atlantic Drift (Michel Daeron | Israel/France/Austria/Germany | 2002)
- Black Hats and Short Skirts (Micah Smith | USA | 2003)
- The Boys of Buchenwald (Audrey Mehler | Canada | 2002)
- Decasia (Bill Morrison | USA | 2002)
- Décryptage (Philippe Bensoussan | France | 2003)
- Dziga and His Brothers (Evgeniy Tsymbal | Russia | 2002)
- The Fight (Barak Goodman | USA | 2004)
- From Philadelphia to the Front (Marianne Bernstein and Judy Gelles | USA | 2005)
- The Great Role (Le grand rôle) (Steve Suissa | France | 2004)
- Kinky Friedman: Proud to Be an Asshole from El Paso (Simon de Vries | Netherlands | 2001)
- Metamorphosis (Valeri Fokin | Russia | 2002)
- Miss Entebbe (Omri Levi | Israel | 2003)
- Monsieur Batignole (Gérard Jugnot | France | 2002)
- No. 17 (David Ofek | Israel | 2003)
- Toots (Kristi Jacobson | USA | 2005)
- Wondrous Oblivion (Paul Morrison | France/UK/Germany | 2003)
PJFF23
Opening Weekend, November 1-3, 2003
Docs & Dialogue: November 17, 2003 – April 19, 2004
Festival: December 6, 2003 – May 3, 2004
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 13-15, 2004
- Divan (Pearl Gluck | USA/Hungary/Israel/Ukraine | 2003)
- Galoot (Asher Tlalim | Israel/UK | 2003)
- The Hebrew Hammer (Jonathan Kesselman | USA | 2003)
- It’s Your Story (David Grubin | USA | 2002)
- Je me souviens (I Remember) (Eric R. Scott | Canada | 2002)
- John Garfield (Mark Rappaport | USA | 2002)
- Keep on Walking: Joshua Nelson, the Jewish Gospel Singer (Tana Ross, Jesper Sorensen, Freke Vuijst and Vibeke Winding | USA | 2000)
- Monsieur Batignole (Gérard Jugnot | France | 2002)
- My Dad Is the Strongest (Tal Ella | Israel | 2002)
- None Without Sin (Michael Epstein | USA | 2003)
- Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (Alberto Negrin | Italy/France/Sweden/Hungary | 2002)
- Robert Capa: In Love and War (Anne Makepeace | USA | 2003)
- Sammy and Me (Samy y yo) (Eduardo Milewicz | Argentina | 2002)
- Stone Reader (Mark Moskowitz | USA | 2002)
- Symphony of Six Million (Gregory La Cava | USA | 1932)
- The Unbelievable Truth (Nathan S. Caswell | USA | 2003)
PJFF22
November 2, 2002 – April 27, 2003
- A Bomb in the Basement (Michael Karpin | Israel | 2001)
- The Case of Jonathan Pollard (Eran Preis | Israel | 2001)
- The Desperate Hours (Victoria Barrett | USA | 2001)
- God Is Great and I’m Not (Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite) (Pascale Bailly | France | 2001)
- Gutman (Shuli Eshel | USA | 2000)
- Kibitz Room (Jared Cowan | USA | 2002)
- Last Dance (Mirra Bank | USA | 2002)
- Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (David Riva | Germany/USA | 2001)
- *Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link | Germany | 2001)
- The Righteous Enemy (Joseph Rochlitz | Italy/UK | 1987)
- Rita (Shiri Shachar | Israel | 2002)
- Strange Fruit (Joel Katz | USA | 2002)
- The Tramp and the Dictator (Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft | UK | 2002)
- Unfair Competition (Concorrenza sleale) (Ettore Scola | Italy/France | 2001)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2003)
PJFF21
November 3, 2001 – April 22, 2002
Decaf, Documentaries and Discussion: November 14, 2001 – April 17, 2002
New Filmmakers Weekend: March 30 – April 1, 2002
- Beyond Hitler’s Grasp (Nitzan Aviram | Israel | 2001)
- Casting (Emmanuel Finkiel | France | 2002)
- Dad on the Run (Cours toujours) (Dante Desarthe | France | 2000)
- I Am Alive and I Love You (Je suis vivante et je vous aime) (Roger Kahane | France/Belgium | 1998)
- Not Everybody’s Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | France | 1993)
- Obsessed with Jews (Jeff Krulik | USA | 2000)
- On Common Ground (Benjamin Semanoff | USA | 2001)
- Once We Grow Up (Renaud Cohen | France | 2000)
- Opera and the Third Reich (Claire Alvy | USA | 2002)
- The Purimspiel (Izabella Cywinska | Poland | 2000)
- *Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (Barak Goodman and Daniel Anker | USA | 2000)
- Shayna Maidels: Orthodox Jewish Teenage Girls (Lisa Kors | USA | 1992)
- The Sweetest Sound (Alan Berliner | USA | 2001)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (2001)
PJFF20
November 4, 2000 – April 2, 2001
Young Filmmakers Weekend: March 22-15, 2001
- 94 Years and 1 Nursing Home Later (Laurel Greenberg | USA | 2000)
- Kivnik! (Joseph Kramer | USA | 2000)
- The Lost Lover (Roberto Faenza | Italy/UK | 1999)
- Man Is a Woman (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | France | 1998)
- My Yiddishe Mama’s Dream (Asher Tlalim | Israel | 1999)
- One Day Crossing (Joan Stein | Hungary/USA | 2001)
- The Return of Tuvia (Akiva Potok | USA | 2000)
- Shylock (Pierre Lasry | Canada | 1999)
- Voyages (Emmanuel Finkiel | Poland/France/Belgium | 1999)
- Would I Lie to You? (La vérité si je mens!) (Thomas Gilou | France | 1997)
PJFF19
October 23, 1999 – April 17, 2000
Young Filmmakers Weekend: March 11-13, 2000
- For My Baby (Rudolph van den Berg | Netherlands/Hungary | 1997)
- The Giraffe (Dani Levy | Germany/Switzerland/USA | 1998)
- In Our Own Hands (Chuck Olin | USA | 2000)
- Let There Be Light (Arthur Joffé | France | 1998)
- *The Personals (Keiko Ibi | USA | 1999)
- Purim (Madeline Schwartzman | USA | 1998)
- **Solomon & Gaenor (Paul Morrison | UK | 1999)
- Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit (Laura Bialis, Broderick Fox and Sarah Levy | USA | 1999)
- Terrorists in Retirement (Mosco Boucault | France | 1985)
- Two Weddings (Eddie Rosenstein and Harvey Wang | USA | 1999)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (1999)
**Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2000)
PJFF18
October 24, 1998 – April 26, 1999
Young Filmmakers Weekend: April 10-12, 1999
- Bubbeh Lee and Me (Andy Abrahams Wilson | USA | 1997)
- A Fish in the Bathtub (Joan Micklin Silver | USA | 1999)
- A Joyful Noise (Brian Cohen | USA | 1998)
- K (Alexandre Arcady | France | 1997)
- A Letter Without Words (Lisa Lewenz | USA | 1998)
- The Long Way Home (Mark Jonathan Harris | USA | 1997)
- Nick and Rachel (Zalisa Rabin | USA | 1996)
- Of Pure Blood (Joseph Sargent | USA | 1986)
- The Proprietor (Ismail Merchant | France/UK/USA | 1996)
- Soleil (Roger Hanin | France/Italy/Germany | 1997)
PJFF17
November 1, 1997 – January 12, 1998
Short Comedies by Young Filmmakers: February 7-9, 1998
Israel 50 Film Festival: March 7 – April 27, 1998
- Arguing the World (Joseph Dorman | USA | 1998)
- Exodus 1947 (Robby Henson and Elizabeth Rodgers | USA | 1997)
- Grandpa’s Funeral (Patricia Resnick | USA | 1994)
- Hannah (George Linder | Austria | 1996)
- Kalamazoo (Claudia Silver | USA | 1995)
- Pressure Drop (Marc Ostrick and Ezra Soiferman | USA | 1994)
- Saint Clara (Ari Folman and Uri Sivan | Israel | 1996)
- Stalin’s Disciples (Nadav Levitan | Israel | 1986)
- A Summer in La Goulette (Un été à La Goulette) (Férid Boughedir | Tunisia/France/Belgium | 1996)
PJFF16
October 12, 1996 – April 20, 1997
- Café au lait (Mathieu Kassovitz | France/Belgium | 1993)
- Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years (Yale Strom | USA | 1996)
- Killer: A Journal of Murder (Tim Metcalfe | USA | 1995)
- The Mad Adventures of ‘Rabbi’ Jacob (Gérard Oury | France/Italy | 1973)
- Mina Tannenbaum (Martine Dugowson | Netherlands/France/Belgium | 1994)
- My Mother’s Courage (Michael Verhoeven | Germany/UK/Austria/Ireland | 1995)
- The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven | West Germany | 1990)
- September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Larry Weinstein | Canada | 1994)
- Tears of Stone (Hilmar Oddsson | Iceland/Germany | 1995)
- The White Rose (Michael Verhoeven | West Germany | 1982)
PJFF15
November 4, 1995 – April 22, 1996
- American Citizen (Eitan Green | Israel/USA | 1992)
- Balagan (Andres Veiel | Germany/Israel | 1994)
- *Chicks in White Satin (Elaine Holliman | USA | 1994)
- Cup Final (Eran Riklis | Israel | 1991)
- High Five (Rob Aden and Jon Rose | USA | 1992)
- The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and Music (Yale Strom | USA | 1994)
- The Righteous (Tzedek) (Marek Halter | France/Switzerland | 1994)
- Speak Up! It’s So Dark… (Suzanne Osten | Sweden | 1993)
- To See Paris & Die (Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia | 1992)
- When Shirley Met Florence (Ronit Bezalel | Canada | 1994)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (1994)
PJFF14
October 29, 1994 – April 24, 1995
- Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (Jan Schütte | Germany/Poland | 1994)
- Austeria (Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland | 1982)
- Birthplace (Pawel Lozinski | Poland | 1992)
- Breaking Home Ties (George K. Rolands and Frank N. Seltzer | USA | 1922)
- Grand Concert of the People (Simeon Aronovitch | Russia | 1991)
- Labyrinth (Jaromil Jires | Germany/Czechoslovakia | 1991)
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ron Underwood | USA | 1986)
- Oy Gay (Rosalind Haber | UK | 1992)
- Queer Son (Vickie Seitchik | USA | 1993)
- Time for Cherries (Haim Bouzaglo | Israel | 1990)
PJFF13
November 6, 1993 – April 25, 1994
- An American Tail (Don Bluth | USA | 1986)
- And the Wind Returneth (Mikhail Kalik | Soviet Union/USA | 1991)
- Architecture of Doom (Peter Cohen | Sweden | 1989)
- The City Without Jews (H.K. Breslauer | Austria | 1924)
- The Cowboy (Abe Wexler | USA | 1968)
- Freud Leaving Home (Susanne Bier | Sweden/Denmark | 1991)
- Jolly Paupers (Leon Jeannot and Zygmunt Turkow | Poland | 1937)
- Sofie (Liv Ullmann | Denmark/Norway/Sweden | 1992)
- Tel Aviv Stories (Ayelet Menachemi and Nirit Yaron | Israel | 1992)
- Towards Jerusalem (Ruth Beckermann | Israel/Austria | 1991)
- A Vision in the Darkness (Sophie Bissonnette | Canada | 1991)
- The Wordmaker (Eli Cohen | Israel | 1991)
PJFF12
November 7, 1992 – April 19, 1993
- The Appointed (Daniel Wachsmann | Israel/France | 1990)
- Falling Over Backwards (Mort Ransen | Canada | 1990)
- Father (John Power | Australia | 1990)
- The Lorax (Hawley Pratt | USA | 1972)
- Memoirs of a River (Judit Elek | Hungary/France | 1990)
- Molly’s Pilgrim (Jeffrey D. Brown | USA | 1987)
- One of Us (Uri Barbash | Israel | 1989)
- Polonaise (Frans Weisz | Netherlands | 1989)
- The Quarrel (Eli Cohen | Canada | 1991)
- Uncle Moses (Sidney M. Goldin and Aubrey Scotto | USA | 1932)
- Zoll Zeyn (Henryk M. Broder and Frans van der Meulen | Israel | 1989)
PJFF11
November 2, 1991 – April 13, 1992
- Abrahams Gold (Jörg Graser | West Germany | 1990)
- Half the Kingdom (Roushell Goldstein and Francine Zuckerman | Canada | 1989)
- Interpretation of Dreams (Andrei Zagdansky | Austria/Soviet Union | 1990)
- The Last Butterfly (Karel Kachyna | Czechoslovakia/France/UK | 1991)
- Les années sandwiches (Pierre Boutron | France | 1988)
- Weininger’s Last Night (Paulus Manker | Austria | 1990)
- Yiddish Connection (Paul Boujenah | France | 1986)
- Zina (Ken McMullen | UK | 1985)
PJFF10
November 10, 1990 – April 21, 1991
- Avanti popolo (Rafi Bukai | Israel | 1986)
- Frontier (Mikhail Dubson | USSR | 1936)
- The Lucky Star (Max Fischer | Canada | 1980)
- The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (Allan A. Goldstein | Canada | 1988)
- Reunion (Jerry Schatzberg | France/West Germany/UK | 1989)
- The Rose Garden (Fons Rademakers | USA/West Germany/Austria | 1989)
PJFF9
November 11, 1989 – April 22, 1990
- Atalia (Tzvika Kertzner and Akiva Tevet | Israel | 1984)
- Avanti popolo (Rafi Bukai | Israel | 1986)
- The Commissar (Aleksandr Askoldov | Soviet Union | 1967)
- Fictitious Marriage (Haim Bouzaglo | Israel | 1988)
- Hole in the Moon (Uri Zohar | Israel | 1964)
- *Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls | West Germany/France/USA | 1988)
- Mamele (Little Mother) (Joseph Green and Konrad Tom | Poland | 1938)
- Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey | France/Italy | 1976)
- The Summer of Aviya (Eli Cohen | Israel | 1988)
- Voices from the Attic (Debbie Goodstein | USA | 1988)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (1989)
PJFF8
November 5, 1988 – April 30, 1989
- *Angry Harvest (Agnieszka Holland | West Germany | 1985)
- A Jumpin’ Night in the Garden of Eden (Michal Goldman | USA | 1988)
- Late Summer Blues (Renen Schorr | Israel | 1987)
- Levy and Goliath (Gérard Oury | France | 1987)
- Manuela’s Loves (Le jupon rouge) (Geneviève Lefebvre | France | 1987)
- A Woman’s Pale Blue Handwriting (Axel Corti | Austria | 1984)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1986)
PJFF7
November 14, 1987 – April 23, 1988
- The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk) (Michal Waszynski | Poland | 1937)
- God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (Axel Corti | Austria/Switzerland/West Germany | 1982)
- Poor Butterfly (Pobre mariposa) (Raúl de la Torre | Argentina | 1986)
- Santa Fe (Axel Corti | Austria/West Germany | 1986)
- The Smile of the Lamb (Shimon Dotan | Israel | 1986)
- Weapons of the Spirit (Pierre Sauvage | France | 1987)
- Welcome in Vienna (Axel Corti | Austria/West Germany/Switzerland | 1986)
- The Younger Generation (Frank Capra | USA | 1929)
PJFF6
January 24 – May 2, 1987
- Eastern Wind (Daniel Wachsmann | Israel | 1982)
- The Light Ahead (Henry Felt and Edgar G. Ulmer | USA | 1939)
- The Other Face of Terror (Ludi Boeken | UK | 1985)
- *Sallah (Ephraim Kishon | Israel | 1964)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1965)
PJFF5
November 9, 1985 – May 3, 1986
- A Brivele der mamen (A Letter to Mama) (Joseph Green and Leon Trystan | Poland/USA | 1938)
- Goodbye, New York (Amos Kollek | Israel/USA | 1985)
- A Psalm for Moshe (Robert Jacobson | USA | 1984)
- Rage and Glory (Avi Nesher | Israel | 1984)
- Tevya (Maurice Schwartz | USA | 1939)
- The Trial (Eberhard Fechner | West Germany | 1984)
PJFF4
December 8, 1984 – April 20, 1985
- Almonds and Raisins (David Elstein and Russ Karel | UK/USA | 1984)
- Avital (Tali Larish | USA | 1980)
- Bye Bye Braverman (Sidney Lumet | USA | 1968)
- The Revolt of Job (Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay | Hungary | 1983)
- The Vulture (Yaky Yosha | Israel | 1981)
PJFF3
November 13-17, 1983
- Bloomers (Hildy Brooks | USA | 1980)
- Bus Stop (Andrea Gomez | USA | 1982)
- Escape Route to Marseilles (Ingemo Engström | West Germany | 1977)
- The Falashas (Meyer Levin | 1973)
- The Golem (Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | Germany | 1920)
- The Great Chess Movie (Jouer sa vie) (Gilles Carle and Camille Coudari | Canada | 1982)
- The Heart of New York (Mervyn LeRoy | USA | 1932)
- The Last Sea (David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri | Israel | 1984)
- The Miracle of Intervale Avenue (Ken Howard | USA | 1983)
- Red or the Blood of Abel (Gerard Benhamou | France | 1976)
- Regentropfen (Raindrops) (Michael Hoffmann and Harry Raymon | West Germany | 1981)
- Song of Radauti (Laurence Salzmann | USA/Romania | 1978)
- The Tribe (Lilly Rivlin | USA | 1983)
- The Well (Der brunim) (David Greenwald | USA | 1983)
- West of Hester Street (Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman | USA | 1983)
PJFF2
November 6-11, 1982
- The Bent Tree (Sally Heckel | USA | 1980)
- Das Boot ist voll (The Boat Is Full) (Markus Imhoof | Switzerland/West Germany/Austria | 1981)
- End of Innocence: June 19th, 1953 (Stephen Stept | USA | 1981)
- Fear Not, Jacob! (Radu Gabrea | West Germany | 1981)
- Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher | USA | 1980)
- Girlfriends (Claudia Weill | USA | 1978)
- Hundred and Two Mature: The Art of Harry Lieberman (Allie Light and Irving Saraf | USA| 1980)
- Image Before My Eyes (Josh Waletzky | USA | 1981)
- Isaac (Andrea Gomez | USA | 1978)
- Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard (Bruce Davidson | USA | 1973)
- Leaving Home (Ilana Bar-Din | USA | 1981)
- *Number Our Days (Lynne Littman | USA | 1976)
- Our Time in the Garden (Ron Blau | USA | 1981)
- A Private Life (Mikhail Bogin | USA | 1979)
- Raananah: A World of Our Own (Marlene Booth | USA | 1981)
- Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey (Gene Rosow | USA | 1982)
- The Silver Crown (Jonathan Siegel | USA | 1979)
- Sosúa (Harriet Taub and Harry Kafka | USA | 1982)
- Tell Me a Riddle (Lee Grant | USA | 1980)
- The Wooden Gun (Ilan Moshenson | Israel | 1979)
- Yudie (Mirra Bank | USA | 1974)
*Winner – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short (1977)
PJFF
December 3, 1981 – April 25, 1982
- David (Peter Lilienthal | West Germany | 1979)
- *Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (Harry Rasky | Canada | 1977)
- Image Before My Eyes (Josh Waletzky | USA | 1981)
- **Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle | France/West Germany/Italy | 1974)
- Now…After All These Years (Harald Lüders and Pavel Schnabel | West Germany | 1981)
- ***Number Our Days (Lynne Littman | USA | 1976)
- A Private Life (Mikhail Bogin | USA | 1979)
- Raananah: A World of Our Own (Marlene Booth | USA | 1981)
- ****The Street (Caroline Leaf | Canada | 1976)
- Transport from Paradise (Zbynek Brynych | Czechoslovakia | 1963)
*Nominated – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (1978)
**Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1975)
***Winner – Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject (1977)
****Nominated – Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (1977)