Thank you to our devoted audience and all of the extraordinary filmmakers who participated in AJFF Playback, our 20th-anniversary online film contest.
Over eight months during an unprecedented global crisis, the Playback competition has brought the best of AJFF to your homes for your (free) enjoyment.
We’re so pleased to have been able to share this virtual programming during challenging times.
Below is a list of all of the film contenders for the Playback categories of Best Short, Best Documentary, and Best Narrative, with links to more information about each film:
Shorts
- A Reuben by Any Other Name
- Banana Bread
- Second Guessing Grandma
- The Gravedigger's Daughter
- My Olympic Summer
- Cohen on the Bridge: Rescue at Entebbe
- The Divorce
- Song of Slomon
- The Tribe
- Chika, the Dog in the Ghetto
- Batman at the Checkpoint
- Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion [winner]
- A Good Uplift
- The Kiss
- Jerry-Atric: One Comic's 77-Year Climb to the Top of the Bottom
- Kid Yamaka
Documentaries
- I Have Never Forgotten You
- Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
- Paper Clips [winner]
- Strange Fruit
- 39 Pounds of Love
- The Freedom to Marry
- Breakfast at Ina's
- Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story
- Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz
- Raise the Roof
- The Rape of Europa
- Above and Beyond
- Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
- Crime After Crime
- Hava Nagila (The Movie)
- Rene and I: From Auschwitz to America
Narratives
- Hey, Hey It's Esther Blueburger
- Turn Left at the End of the World
- The Last Suit [winner]
- The Little Traitor
- Ajami
- The Cakemaker
- Lore
- Yossi & Jagger
- The Believer
- The Syrian Bride
- Fanny's Journey
- A Matter of Size
- Fateless
- Live and Become
- Dough
- When Do We Eat?
