2024 EVENT GRID
Selected Venue:
2024 |
19 min |
USA
Drama, Short
Nov 15
Confronting her disabled daughter''s terminal diagnosis, a mother fights to have her become a Bat Mitzvah in their synagogue, which refuses to break from tradition.
2023 |
13 min |
UK
Texas premiere
Drama, Short
Nov 15
Liverpool, 1947. Two British soldiers are kidnapped and murdered in Mandate Palestine. In the aftermath of the so-called ‘Sergeants Affair’, a wave of antisemitic riots sweep across the UK. Louis Scholnick, a British-Jewish World War Two veteran, is forced to defend his family’s shop from a violent mob.
2024 |
15 min |
USA
Southwest premiere
Comedy, Drama, Short
Nov 15
When Adam brings his first-ever girlfriend to his beloved mentor’s annual queer, all-male Passover seder, he must come out of the closet all over again—putting his relationship with his chosen family in jeopardy.
2024 |
11 min |
Israel
US premiere
Drama, Short
Nov 15
Asia (58) and her son Oz (30) are leaving ''Sheba'' Tel Hashomer Hospital after visiting Gadi (60), the family''s father, who is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Their walk through the ''endless'' hospital hallway becomes unbearable for Asia, as Oz makes his feelings heard about moving Gadi to a hospice.
2024 |
11 min |
USA
World premiere
Drama, Horror, Short
Nov 15
A new spin on a classic Jewish folktale, this Hanukkah-set story follows three friends who accidentally reawaken a centuries-old clay monster.
2024 |
91 min |
France
Southwest premiere
Drama
Nov 3, Nov 15
André Masson, an auctioneer at Scottie’s, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a blue collar worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns a painting by Egon Schiele. André’s first reaction is to believe that it can only be a fake. He decides to make the trip to Mulhouse anyway and against all odds, the painting turns out to be a masterpiece gone missing in 1939. This could undoubtedly be the turning point of his career, but after a brief investigation, he realizes that he has in his hands a looted work of art.
2023-2024 |
180 min |
Cuba, India, Israel, UK, USA
FREE!
World, US, Southwest, Texas premiere films
Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Horror
Nov 15
A virtual presentation of ALL of our 2024 Festival shorts, with a single, free ticket. Includes additional films that are not playing in person.
2024 |
19 min |
USA
FREE!
Drama, Short
Nov 15
Confronting her disabled daughter''s terminal diagnosis, a mother fights to have her become a Bat Mitzvah in their synagogue, which refuses to break from tradition.
2023 |
13 min |
UK
FREE!
Texas premiere
Drama, Short
Nov 15
Liverpool, 1947. Two British soldiers are kidnapped and murdered in Mandate Palestine. In the aftermath of the so-called ‘Sergeants Affair’, a wave of antisemitic riots sweep across the UK. Louis Scholnick, a British-Jewish World War Two veteran, is forced to defend his family’s shop from a violent mob.