Annual Events

Location: Sacramento, Caifornia

Among the Festival's goals are to seek out and present unique, humorous, powerful, touching and personal films from around the world which focus on the Jewish experience.

Past offerings have included sensitive and sometimes controversial titles such as "A Trumpet in the Wadi" and "Trembling Before God", award winning films such as "One Day Crossing" and "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" and humorous shorts such as "God @ Heaven", "Gefilte Fish", and "The West Bank Story".

Location: Selwyn Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185

The Festival draws thousands of people, and showcases the talents of artists and musicians, young and older, professional and amateur from within the Jewish Community, as well as giving the opportunity for dozens of communal organisations, sporting, religious, cultural and more, to show the Jewish and wider community alike what they stand for and do.

Of course, no festival is complete without delicious food !

Come for brunch, stay for lunch, and enjoy an afternoon munch from any of the varied food stalls.

Details to follow

Location: Geneva

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Sharing the celebration of Jewish Life, art and history in film with the greater Honolulu Community.

The Honolulu Jewish Film Festival returns with a stellar selection of films that celebrate and examine the Jewish experience across the globe.

Held annually in March. See website for details. 

The PVJFF presents critically acclaimed films that not only entertain, but also provide opportunities for reflection, discussion, and a deeper understanding of our complex, diverse world.

Join us for a cinematic exploration of Jewish identity, community, and history.

Location: Bahbhofstrasse 20, Zurich

6 days, 17 events and more then 40 jewish artists from all over the world coming to preform in Zurich - Switzerland.

Music shows, dance shows and workshops, movie evening, lectures and many more interesting events.

Location: Athens, Georgia

Facilitating cultural discussion by presenting quality Jewish films in Athens, Georgia while promoting filmmakers focused on the Jewish experience.

Location: King William Road, Adelaide, SA 5000

Adelaide Cabaret Festival June 2026. 

Keep checking website for updates. 

Location: Jerusalem

Location: Tel Aviv

Location: Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival -
Celebrating the Jewish experience through Film

Location: Morton Grove, Chicago, Illinois

The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival expresses the heart and soul of Jewish Chicago.

The Festival intertwines the sounds, sights and tastes of Jewish culture and celebrates Jewish identity.

First produced in 1980, the Festival has always brought together every facet of the Jewish community, young and old, multi-generational and all segments of religious practice and political thought for a day of sharing, understanding and tolerance.

We also reach out to our friends of other religions and cultures to come and share the experience with us.

Come and be part of the "town square of Jewish Chicago" with 4 stages of music and dance, a juried art fair, a children's activity fair, a strictly Kosher food fair and an organization fair with over 100 organizations.

Plan to be with us or consider being a volunteer as we throw the largest Jewish cultural event in Chicago and the longest running Jewish Festival in America.

Location: New York

Since 2002, the New York Asian Film Festival has been an annual celebration of the best and boldest in Asian cinema.

As the first film festival in North America to champion the works of today’s leading Asian auteurs, NYAFF continues to introduce vibrant and vital voices ranging from explosive blockbusters to eccentric arthouse gems.

As we celebrate Asian representation more than ever, NYAFF provides an essential connection and awareness to our community, to New Yorkers, and beyond.

Location: San Francisco area, California

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the world's first and largest Jewish film festival.

It takes place in San Francisco and three other Bay Area cities in late July and early August, drawing an audience of approximately 30,000 people.

Location: 801 Percy Warner Blvd, Nashville, Tennessee

In the tradition of local food festivals and competitions, the Kosher "Nashville Hot Chicken" Festival is our uniquely Nashville take on an event that enables our entire community to eat together, join in a day of fun, and celebrate the Nashville Hot Chicken sensation.

Join us to sample from each of our amateur and professional chefs and teams that will offer their take on Nashville Hot Chicken in a fun and competitive environment.

Location: Arad Centre, Arad

One of the oldest music festivals in Israel, hosts the best singers and the leading bands of Israel
The events are focused on the Hebrew song.

In addition to the music events the visitors can enjoy street theater shows and visits in the city museums and galleries.

Location: Jerusalem

Location: Cebu City, Central Visayas, Cebu

Founded by local filmmakers and established in 2009, the Binisaya Film Festival aims to develop a uniquely Cebuano sensibility by providing a venue to showcase Bisaya films and Global Cinema unfettered by commercial constraints.

BINISAYA has also maintained its status over the years as a hotbed for discussion over the direction of Cebuano films and its place in the world

Location: Copake, New York

Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp (BHEC), 159 Empire Rd, Copake, NY 12516, USA.

100% Yiddish. 100% fun!

Location: North Kensico Avenue, Valhalla, New York 10595

Westchester Jewish Music & Arts festival sponsors & celebrates Jewish heritage.

Full details on the website. 

Location: Epsom Road Ascot Vale, Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne, VIC

For sheer fun, discovery and excitement there's nothing like the Royal Melbourne Show!

Every year in September. 

Full details on the website. 

Location: Budapest

A Multicultural Event with Exciting Programs

The Jewish Cultural Festival in Budapest is a great opportunity to find out everything about Hungarian Jewish culture.

The Jews played an important part in Hungary's history. The city's Jewish community has started to reborn in the previous couple of years.  This cultural event reflects this ambition.

Come to the Hungarian capital at the end of summer, and visit some of the programs of this unique event to make your stay even more memorable!

The central venue of the event is the beautiful Dohány Street Central Synagogue in the historic Jewish Quarter.

Location: Córdoba

The Festival is a meeting point where the public can get a deeper understanding of the different traditions of Sepchardic culture.

Concerts of the musical genre by Spanish and international artists alternate with talks and conferences about this people.

During the festival spectators can enjoy drinks, tea, cakes and typical dishes in the Sephardi tavern.

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Pickle Fest® is a celebration of pickles and volunteerism in Cleveland.

Volunteers are a BIG DILL. Proceeds from the event support Greater Cleveland Volunteers programs and services to volunteers and nonprofits in Cuyahoga County.

Cleveland Pickle Fest® attracts thousands of people to Downtown Cleveland.

The event includes pickle companies, food trucks, restaurants, pickle items, and pickle beer.

Pickle lovers might enjoy many different flavors of pickles, pickles on a stick, pickle candy, and even pickle ice cream.

Location: Victoria, British Columbia

The annual Victoria International Jewish Film Festival (VIJFF) - launched in 2015 in Victoria, BC, Canada - aims to enhance our audiences' enjoyment of films with Jewish themes and related content from around the globe.

We celebrate these films as explorations of Jewish culture and as artistic expressions of broadly shared human values.

Location: Abu Gosh & Tel Aviv

Location: Sea Of Galilee, Kfar Blum

Jacob's Ladder Folk Festival is a unique and super friendly musical and social event which takes place twice a year in two different formats for lovers of all aspects of folk music from Bluegrass to World music, from Irish jigs to Country Rock, from Blues to Bagpipes.

THE WINTER FESTIVAL is a more intimate indoor event held at Nof Ginosar Hotel and grounds.

The Indoor Winter festival is Suitable for Singles, Couples, Families with young kids, and Seniors.

Location: Warsaw

Warsaw Film Festival
The WFF differs from other festivals in its programme, just as Warsaw differs from other cities.

Selecting the films, we always remember about our audience - native Varsovians, those working or studying in Warsaw, and those in town for a short while, for instance only for the Festival.

For over forty years, the Warsaw Film Festival has been promoting cinema that brings people together, inspires thought, and leaves a lasting impression.

It is a space of creative freedom, dialogue, and films that tackle important issues — a place where stories that truly matter come together.

Location: Sacramento, California

Location: Silicon Valley, California

The Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival offers a broad selection of high-quality films and related events for members of the community.

The SVJFF strives to produce an environment where members of the Jewish community experience a purely cultural connection with their heritage, and, at the same time, reaches out to the non-Jewish community.

Location: 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY, NY 10128

The New York Jewish Film Festival, co-presented with the Jewish Museum, is a preeminent showcase for world cinema exploring the Jewish experience.

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival celebrates the quality, diversity, and innovation of Jewish film making from around the world.

 Narrative or documentary, new or old, the Film Festival finds the highest quality films that speak to the Jewish experience, tell uniquely Jewish stories, or come from the finest Jewish filmmakers across the globe.

Location: Barcelona

The Barcelona Jewish Film festival arose out of the vocation to make known and disseminate jewish culture, so closely linked to the history of both Barcelona and Spain. It aims to:

- Promote cultural activities with the "Call" area of Barcelona.
- Make known the intercultural nature of jewish people.
- Create a place for encounters and tolerant dialogue.
- Place jewish culture on the city's cultural agenda.
- Promote productions about jewish subject made in the state.

Location: 122 Amsterdam Ave at West 65th Street, NYC, New York, opposite Lincoln Center, NY 10023

The Israeli Dance Institute invites you to join the Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts.

The Festival day begins at 11:00 am with Rivkaleh's Fair, a once a year indoor event that will delight every member of the family with a marketplace of arts, crafts and cultural exhibits together with activities for children and adults featuring community dancing.

The Festival performance follows the Fair at 3:30 pm featuring a spectacular show with dancers and singers of all ages from communities across the United States coming together on one stage.

The Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts is a project of the Israeli Dance Institute in partnership with Jewish National Fund with the support of Bnai Zion, the New York Board of Rabbis and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.