Events

Name: Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival – This Ordinary Thing
Start: 2026-04-14T18:45:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-14T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival

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August 2025
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Presents: TATAMI

August 17, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Co-directed by Israeli Guy Nativ and Iranian Zar Amir, TATAMI examines the intersection of world politics and sports through the lens of judo. It...
September 2025
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Presents: Welcome To Yiddishland

September 14, 2025 @ 3:30 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

A lively and witty documentary, Welcome to Yiddishland follows a new generation of artists bringing fresh life to the nearly-lost Yiddish language. From...
October 2025
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Presents: The Dybbuk

October 26, 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

100% Rotten Tomatoes "... one of a kind ..." Washington Post "... spectacular ..." New York Times "... the best of Yiddish...
November 2025
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Presents: The Thomashefskys

November 30, 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

"make you forget your troubles for an evening, plunge into another world and feel your own more fully in the...
December 2025
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Presents: The Sea

December 21, 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

WINNER! Israeli Academy Award for BEST PICTURE "… poignant …" Variety Twelve-year-old Khaled, a boy from a Palestinian village, has dreamed all...
January 2026
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival: Pink Lady

January 18 @ 3:00 pm

PINK LADY Tender, intimate, and quietly devastating, Pink Lady is a powerful exploration of love under surveillance and identity under siege. Set...
February 2026
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Presents: Swedishkayt – YidLife Crisis in Stockholm

February 8 @ 3:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Both a love letter to Jewish resilience and a joyful reminder that identity is never as tidy as Scandinavian furniture, Swedishkayt:...
April 2026
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival – This Ordinary Thing

April 14 @ 6:45 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

What does it mean to do the right thing? This Ordinary Thing tells the remarkable true stories of everyday people who chose compassion over fear...

The Board of Directors for the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe (CCA) has voted to close the organization after serving the Santa Fe and northern New Mexico community on its forty-fourth year of operation. The decision was reached after careful consideration of options presented during its current strategic planning initiative.

“Closing a cherished, community organization like CCA is one of the most difficult decisions a board can make,” said David Muck, CCA Board Chair. “However, we simply couldn’t secure the level of individual donations required to achieve the high quality of programming and exhibitions envisioned by CCA’s professional staff and board of directors,” he continued.

Many nonprofits in the U.S. were hit hard by Covid and CCA is a good example. The CCA Cinema closed during Covid, and attendance was slow to resume, reflecting national downward trends in moviegoing post-Covid as reported in multiple news outlets, such as IndieWire and others. In 2023, the organization forecast the cinema to perform at only 50% of pre-Covid levels, resulting in monthly losses. Though grants and individual donations to the organization were up significantly in 2022 and 2023, they simply weren’t enough to make up the difference in the annual budget and cover both current and planned exhibitions and operations.

“This tough decision did not come lightly,” said Danyelle Means, CCA Executive Director and Head Curator. “For a nonprofit institution that operates independently of state support, the annual donations needed to sustainably continue operating was not enough, especially in the wake of challenges from pandemic closures and reduced attendance,” Means continued.

CCA did have its share of recent successes: CCA Executive Director Danyelle Means had secured a three-year grant of $100,000 per year from the Ford Foundation, with an option to renew for another three-year period. The organization was also the recipient of a $50,000 inaugural grant from Ruth Arts Foundation, as well as other granting organizations. Self-Determined, a 2022 CCA exhibition, was listed as one of the world’s Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022 by Hyperallergic magazine and CCA’s new monthly Closer Looks cinema series was a hit with film enthusiasts.

The CCA board of directors considered closing the organization in December of 2021, but voted to remain open in 2022 in hopes of a recovery post-Covid. However, despite the hard work of CCA staff and the accomplishments like the ones mentioned above, the shuttered period during which the cinema was closed proved too challenging to overcome. CCA Cinema’s final day of public operations is Thursday, April 6, and all upcoming CCA gallery exhibitions and public programs are cancelled.

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