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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

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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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We meet Ed Stein, an American Jewish man on a traumatic day in his life. He has received a letter from a tormentor from his past, a neo-Nazi bully named John Bauer who made his life hell when he was a teenager. Mr. Bauer is looking to make amends with his past. Ed Stein has never properly dealt with these issues and though long buried, still haunt him to this day.

Adult language.

Length: 12 minutes

Cast: Mark Schrier, Rodrigo Ternevoy, Joel Farrell

Director: Noel Brady

Writer: Mark Schrier and Noel Brady

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‘I want to make a film about women’ is a speculative documentary love letter to Russian constructivist women. The new Soviet Union of the 1920s championed equality for women and great innovation in the creative arts. Until it didn”t. Looking back at that time, history remembers the men who were celebrated and then shut down. But women were there, too, and they were influential, powerful and brilliant. ‘I want to make a film about women’ gazes in to a creative communal kitchen and watches these women transform it into a workshop, then a stage set, then a film, all the while juggling noisy men and the wolves of history. It imagines what the revolutionary women artists of the 1920s said, what they did, and what they might have created had it not been for Stalin”s suppression.

Length: 12 minutes

Cast: Victoria Haralabidou, Liliya May, Inga Romantsova, Violette Ayad, Ever Sliter, Nadia Zwecker, Tug Dumbly and Richard James Allen

Director: Karen Pearlman

Writer: Karen Pearlman

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