EVENT GRID
Director(s): Ofek Moscovich
Canada, Israel
Runtime: 45'
SPECIAL FREE EVENT FOR OCT. 7 COMMEMORATION
Southwest premiere
Documentary
Oct 7
Still Dancing follows four Nova survivors as they rebuild their lives through art, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Nearly three years after October 7, each carries the trauma differently and searches for a personal way forward. Raw, intimate, and quietly hopeful, the film reveals recovery as it truly is—complex, unfinished, and deeply human. It is a story not only of what was lost, but of what can slowly be created again.
Why we like this film: Part of Austin's communal October 7th commemoration event, which will include a post film Q&A with the director as well as one of the ESEK artists whose work will be available in the on site shuk before the screening.
Director(s): Silvio Soldini
Belgium, Switzerland, taly
Year: 2025
Runtime: 123'
Drama
Sep 11 - Sep 27
Based on the bestselling book “At the Wolf’s Table” by Italian author Rosella Postorino, THE TASTERS follows a group of women who were recruited by the SS in 1943 to make sure that the food being served to Hitler was not poisoned. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters start to split into two factions: those loyal to Hitler and those who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives everyday for the Führer.
Why we like this film: In 2012, at the age of 95, shortly before her death, a woman named Margot Wölk revealed that she had been one of the young German women forced to taste Hitler's meals. No one had ever known about the existence of the food tasters. Margot Wölk was the only one among them to survive the end of the war. Her story inspired both the novel and the film. Although the Jewish content isn't immeidately obvious, it becomes revealed towards the end of the movie.