Tickets just went on sale for The Annual New York Jewish Film Festival marking its 20th anniversary in NY’s preeminent showcase for world cinema exploring the Jewish experience. Taking place at film society’s Walter Reader Theatre, The Jewish Museum and The JCC in Manhattan from Jan, 12- 27, it features 36 movies and shorts with several of the screenings followed by filmmakers and special guests in onstage discussion and/or performances. The festival opens on Wednesday, January 12, with the New York premiere of “Mahler on the Couch,” Percy and Felix Adlon’s witty examination of composer Gustav Mahler’s relationship with his tempestuous wife, Alma, and his consultations with Sigmund Freud. The film is filled with Mahler’s sublime music, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. It joins the closing night film, Avi Nesher’s “The Matchmaker”-a New York premiere about a teenage boy in 1968 Haifa who gets a job working for a matchmaker who is a Holocaust survivor. This film was nominated for seven Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Other stand out films include ‘I Miss You’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish.’ (pictured here) Single screening tickets for The New York Jewish Film Festival are $12; $9 for students; $8 for seniors (62+); and $7 for Film Society and Jewish Museum members. For complete festival information, visit www.FilmLinc.com, www.TheJewishMuseum.org, or call 212.875.5601. For tickets and information about the screening at The JCC in Manhattan, call 646.505.5708 or visit www.jccmanhattan.org/film.