Since 1976, the National Center for Jewish Film has rescued, restored, and exhibited films that document the diversity of Jewish life. The Center has one of the world’s largest archive collections of rare and endangered films with Jewish content, and every year it hosts a vibrant festival of new independent films and restored classics from around the world, with visiting filmmakers and scholars.

As part of this year’s festival, which takes place at venues around Boston between March 16 and 31, two new art-related documentaries premiere at the MFA on Sunday, March 23. Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief exposes the crimes of Bruno Lohse, Hermann Göring’s art agent, who orchestrated history’s most infamous art theft ring, stealing countless masterpieces from liquidated Jews across Europe. And The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka and The Art of Survival profiles an artist who defined Art Deco style and transgressive glamour with her distinctive high-gloss sensual nudes and cooly elegant portraits of high society in the Jazz Age.

See the full lineup for this year’s festival. Curated by NCJF’s codirectors, Lisa Rivo and Sharon Pucker Rivo.