FREE FILM SPOTLIGHT #10

Drama Israel (2013) 20 min. | Hebrew w/ English sub

During Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Week, an introverted high-school senior must decide whether to break away with old traditions in a competition to win over the girl of his dreams.

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Director: Jonah Bleicher

Comedy USA (2011) 6 min | English

Josh is a young secular jewish professional living in Montreal's Mile End Neighborhood. One night he's confronted by a group of Hasidic men who accuse him of having thrown a rock at them and of anti-semitism. Josh's first thought is 'what would my mother think?' Trying to resolve the misunderstanding, Josh agrees to an impromptu tribunal with the Hasidic men and their Rabbi.

Directed by Mark Slutsky

Photographing the Beatles

Documentary Israel (2013) 4 min English

Henry Grossman shares a few of his favorite photographs of the Beatles, who he photographed in the 1960s, when he had unprecedented access to the Fab Four.

Read more: forward.com/articles/171661/photographer-henry-grossmans-unique-eye-on-the-bea/

Director: The Forward

Audition

Animated Netherlands (2011) 7 min.

Award winning short. In a concentration camp a young boy is auditioning for the camp s orchestra. He leaves his father behind and walks the long and cold distance to the place what really is an execution site. While he is playing he escapes in a fantasy world. At the last note he returns to the harsh reality and stands waiting for the decision of the the firing squad. His father listens from a distance.

Directors: Udo Prinsen

Comedy USA (2010) 8 minutes | English

At a shiva with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy.

Director: Emma Seligman

Drama Israel (2009) 24 min | Hebrew w/ English sub

Segal’s life of confined existence is about to change when an unforeseen opportunity knocks.

Director: Yuval Shani

Animated | Israel (2018) 16 min | Hebrew w/ English sub

In 1950 Tel Aviv, a mother and her son receive a telegram with an invitation for a phone call from America. The prospects of the call spark hope for a better life in the mother’s heart while her son is busy in his own fantasy world inspired from his life in Israel.

Director: Nadav Arbel

Documentary | UK (2018) 10 min | English

A group of men meet at a Turkish baths in Bayswater, London regularly to practice an ancient healing ritual known as 'schmeissing'. However this lifestyle is under threat as gentrification looms. Meet the 'Schmeissers' - the most diverse bunch you could ever hope to meet.

Director: Clive Saunders

Drama Israel (2015) 18 min | Hebrew w/ English sub

Rita, a nurse for the Social Welfare Department, is accompanied by Mali, a student, as she makes her house calls. Rita explains to Mali that it is important to be tough and unsentimental with each client, no matter how heartrending their situation may be. But at the end of the day, in an act of uncharacteristic kindness, Rita decides to revisit one of her patients.

Director: Maya Kessel

Animated USA (2018) 19 min | English

A conversation between a boy and his great-grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor, is woven with historical footage and animation to tell a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, sharing lessons from the Holocaust with a new generation.

Directors: Amy Schatz

Comedy UK (2002) 30 min English

Mrs Meitlemeihr is a film that dares to ask one of the greatest what-if-questions of the century. What if Hitler didn't die in Berlin at the end of the war? What if he escaped with the intention of joining all those other Nazi evil-geniuses in sun-soaked South America? What if fate intervened and Hitler was forced into hiding in post-war London? What if he was forced to disguise himself? What if he disguised himself as... a woman?

Director: Graham Rose

Drama Australia (2012) 9 min. Yiddush w/English sub

God has decided. A marriage has been arranged. In a little house on the outskirts of a Shtetl (Jewish village), fate has brought Yoni and Sarah together to make the biggest decision of their lives.

Director: Oran Franco