FREE SHORT FILM SPOTLIGHT #7

Drama Israel (2015) 24 minutes | Hebrew w/ English subtitles

It's the hottest day of the summer, and for the first time in years, Anna unexpectedly finds herself alone without her son. She sets out for the day, roaming the streets of her small desert town, looking for a man who can touch her, even just for one brief moment.

Written and directed by Or Sinai

Ophir Award for Best Short Film

Drama UK (2012) 18 minutes | English

Edina, a young Jewish ballerina must fight for survival as she is snatched from her home and sent to a Nazi concentration camp.

Directed by Nick Rowland

GREENLAND

Drama Israel (2014) 17 minutes | Hebrew w/English Sub

Oren (27) comes to his parents' house to pack his belongings before moving with his girlfriend to their new apartment. During this day, out of seemingly simple interactions, the family dynamics reveals itself, and exposes the protagonist's place- between child and adult, between intimacy and Alienation. The house constitutes the space in which past, present and future mix into a chronicle of separation.

Director: Oren Gerner

16th Tel-Aviv Intl student film festival (Winner, Best Israeli short film).

- Nominated for the Ofhir award

Documentary USA (2008) 34 min. | English

In 1914, Fritz Haber is Germany's greatest chemist. His Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers have saved the world from mass starvation. But as World War I breaks out across Europe, slaughtering millions of young soldiers, the desperate German military asks Haber to invent an entirely new kind of weapon. Already having sacrificed his Jewish identity and his wife's career to achieve success, Haber's decision not only unleashes weapons of mass destruction for the first time in human history, but also threatens to destroy his family as well.

Director: Daniel Ragussis

In it, dancers dressed in solemn black suits and sitting on chairs chant the lyrics and start to strip, throwing back their bodies and clothes to the heavens. (The Batsheva troupe, with whom Naharin works exclusively to create new dances, has a way of moving in such unison as to seem divinely inspired.)

by Ohad Naharin performed by Batsheva - the Young Ensemble

Comedy Ireland (2012) 13 minutes | English

Set in Dublin in the 1970’s this film explores a rarely glimpsed Ireland, as seen through the eyes of spirited seven year old, Hannah Cohen. Hannah can’t wait to make her Holy Communion – only problem is she’s Jewish! An Irish/Jewish film with an international feel, the beauty of the story lies in its simplicity, humour, and the universal desire to fit in.

Director: Shimmy Marcus

Drama | Israel (2018) 15 minutes | Hebrew w/English sub

Abigail is heavily pregnant, But something is missing. Terrified about the imminent birth, she kidnaps a comforting partner in crime for one afternoon.

Director: Noa Gusakov

Animation | USA (2014) 19 minutes | English

A hilarious neon animation narrated by Shane Baker, explaining Yiddish Vaudeville, its past luminaries and his own life in it. Drawings by Ellen Stedfeld. Neon Animation and direction by Jack Feldstein.New York-via-Sydney animator Jack Feldstein has developed a trademark style of "neonizing," whereby he manipulates video into a kaleidoscopic color palette that resembles classic American neon signs. In his newest offering, How to Break into Yiddish Vaudeville, Feldstein uses a combination of neonized public domain found footage and live action video to whimsically document the cutthroat world of NYC burlesque theatre. Featuring the voice of Shane Baker and drawings by Ellen Stedfeld.

Director Jack Feldstein

Drama Israel (2019) 5 minutes

A family of donkeys makes its way through the Arava and they are not alone. Desert, water, sky, noise, metal, engines, dolphins, donkeys, galloping, road, plateau, mountain, path, on the highroad.

Director: David Volach

Drama Israel (2017) 13 minutes | Hebrew w/English sub

A woman who is supposed to be going home to her partner to celebrate her 50th birthday prepares to leave the restaurant where she works. But in the end she stays a little longer and spends the evening with two strangers. A film about the alternative life that resides in each of us.

Director: Shira Meishar

Drama USA (2010) 5 minutes German w/English sub

Kurt Gerstein, a guilt-ridden Nazi officer, seeks to redeem himself by betraying the Nazi party and exposing the truth of the Holocaust to the world.

Director: Matthew Ross Fennell, Matthew Ryckman

A short film about Milton Glaser, the creator of the famous I Heart NY symbol and his struggle to find love for the city in a trying time. I ❤ NY is a nuanced, nostalgic, and heartfelt examination of one of the few humans to define an indefinable city.

Director: Andre Andreev

Documentary USA (2018) 12 minutes | English

GrandmaDeath Metal Grandma follows 97 year old Holocaust survivor Inge Ginsberg as she attempts to break out as a Death Metal Singer.

Director Leah Galant

Drama Israel (2011) 18 min | Hebrew w/English sub

When Mika, a suburban teenager teenager finds a disturbing creature in her swimming pool she asks her neighbor Gershon for help. What starts off as a friendly encounter between two neighbors turns into an unexpected lesson on the borders of control.

Director: Adi Kutner

Drama USA (2015) | 15 minutes | English

ELLIS awakens our collective memory, taking you back to the early years of Ellis Island through the experience of one immigrant. Set in the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital complex and using JR’s UNFRAMED art installations, ELLIS tells the forgotten story of the immigrants who built America. It is the story of the ghosts of our countries past, the individuals who fled poverty, discrimination, and dictatorships, for a chance at a new life and eerily foreshadows the plight of those who currently seek the same opportunities and safety in this country and other parts of the world. The short narrative film stars Academy Award® Winner Robert De Niro, is written by Academy Award® winner Eric Roth, and is directed by the artist JR

Drama USA (2016) 10 minutes | English

The World is a dangerous place to live not because of the evil in the world but because of those who look on and do nothing. Inspired by the true story of 12 year old Walter who endured the bullies in 1933 Germany by creating an alternate Superhero Universe and the 6 words that changed his and his families life forever.

Director: Brenda Lee Lau