In this surrealist dreamscape based on actual events, E=MC³‘ is Victor Stabin’s animated tale of Albert Einstein’s invention and patenting of the perpetual motion refrigerator that brings peace to the Middle East. The animation combines fantastic imagery with tongue-in-cheek storytelling and plenty of schtick.
Length: 12 minutes
Cast: Dave Davies, Richard Hake
Director: Victor Stabin
Introduction by director Victor Stabin.
How would you react if your father”s last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop”s final journey. Pops is a Jewish comedy drama about family, religion and how we choose to honor a life well-lived.
Length: 19 minutes
Cast: Samantha Spiro, Nigel Lindsay
Director: Lewis Rose
Writer: Lewis Rose
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In Argentina in 1939, while the World Chess Championship was taking place, breaking news shocked the participants: Germany had invaded Poland and World War II had erupted. Many great masters were stranded away from their home countries, and began to organize exhibitions in order to make their living. One of them searched for something else.
Length: 18 minutes
Cast: Juan Nemirovsky, Jorge De la Rosa, Cristian Marchesi
Director: Alfonso Gastiaburo
Writer: Alfonso Gastiaburo
The ”Taliban Women” is the nickname for a growing band of ultra-orthodox women in Israel who choose to wear a hooded garment similar to a Muslim burka. From behind her veil, Rachel defies accepted definitions of gender, religion, and freedom.
Length: 10 minutes
Cast: Rubi Blal Asfour, Yiftach Betsaleli Teltsch
Director: Yochay Rosenberg
Writer: Yochay Rosenberg
Norm, a Jewish immigrant boy growing up during the Great Depression in St. Louis, dreams of flying in an airplane. When an airfield near his home offers a 10-minute flight for two dollars, Norm gets hopeful about fulfilling his dream. His parents, survivors of pogroms – anti-Semitic attacks, are protective, and claim that a flight in an airplane is dangerous. Even so, Norm saves up his ice cream money, a nickel at a time, to pay for a short flight. But, when he discovers the truth about how his mother’s family was killed in the Old Country, he gets cold feet. Norm must decide whether to continue living in the shadow of family trauma or break free and fulfill his dream.
Length: 27 minutes
Cast: Grayson Taylor, Carole Forman, Te’ena Klien, Leo Grinberg, Catharine Ashmore Bradley
Director: Yasmin Gorenberg
Writer: Yasmin Gorenberg, Myra Noveck
Ofira (67), a recently retired teacher, refuses to become a victim of routine life and decides to revive an old dream – becoming a painter. With no support from her family, Ofira faces the white canvas, when in fact she is facing herself, to paint the rest of her life.
Length: 20 minutes
Cast: Dina Limon, Rami Baruch, Ofra Weingarten, Gal Aviv-Kalderon
Director: Shahar Shamay
Writer: Shahar Shamay, Osnat Friedman, Hadas Klein
Matt wants to find his late mother’s “Beefies” recipe for a pandemic Passover, but finds he must reconnect with his estranged brother to do so. Matt will have to figure out her fractured recipe, or burn down his kitchen trying.
Length: 9Minutes 41 Seconds
Cast: Salome Mergia, Goran Ivanovski, Molly Gray, Adam Lebowitz-Lockard
Director: Adam Lebowitz-Lockard
Writer: Adam Lebowitz-Lockard
Infamous New York City talent agent, Yvette Slosch, is determined to make a star out of her newest client, jazz violinist, Aaron Weinstein. She refuses to let Aaron”s lack of name recognition, jazz”s dwindling fan base, or the 2020 global pandemic get in her way. As the pandemic rages, Yvette”s schemes to keep Aaron”s career afloat become increasingly convoluted, testing her abilities as an agent and her friendship with Aaron.
Length: 20 minutes
Director: Aaron Weinstein
Call Me Back trailer.
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During the peak of the pandemic, a young Israeli woman living in New York goes on a virtual date with a nice young American man. It all goes perfectly well, until her mother decides to get involved.
Cast: Miki Kam, Noa Osheroff, Brad Silnutzer
Director: Noa Osheroff
Writer: Noa Osheroff
A picture taken in 1919 shows the family of Kopel Gringras. He was a renowned photographer from Kielce. He operated the ”Foto Moderne” atelier, in which he took pictures of people from the area unMl the beginning of the Second World War. Kopel Gringras did not survive the Holocaust. He perished in Treblinka, along with his wife and nearly all of his children. The surviving copy of the Gringras family portrait is blurry, damaged, and out of focus. Roman Gringras, Kopel’s grandson, now living in Paris, enlists the help of his sister from Warsaw and cousin from Israel to find the original photograph in order to get to see the faces of his ancestors clearly.
Length: 7 minutes
Director: Jakub Duszyński
Writer: Jakub Duszyński
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