The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: Westchester Jewish Film Festival @ Jacob Burns Film Center: The festival celebrates the 5oth anniversary of De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s that won the 1970 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The evocative and atmospheric film follows the rise of anti-Semitism in pre-war Italy. And its impact on the romances and class conflicts of a group of well-off Jews as they sequester themselves in their idyllic home. (Wed, 3/25: 6:30pm, Wed, 4/1: 4:55pm & Sun, 4/5: 2pm)

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Westchester Jewish Film Festival 2020 at Jacob Burns: Tickets for the Westchester Jewish Film Festival at Jacob Burns Film Center go on sale February 25 for members and February 28 for non-members. This year’s festival will showcase 24 cinematic narratives and documentaries from Israel, Hungary, France, Ethiopia and the United States.

The festival schedule features Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, a documentary about the iconic Jewish musical; Those Who Remained, Hungary’s nomination for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; and a 50th anniversary screening of Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s, about a group of affluent Jews in prewar Italy.

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