Shorts Showcase

A diverse collection of 11 short films shown in-person. The collection includes short comedies, dramas, animation, and documentaries from around the world.
WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: The fun thing about shorts programs is that if you don’t like one short, just wait a few minutes and there will be a whole new film! Also, almost all feature film makers start out by making shorts, so this is a great opportunity to see the work of some significant filmmakers of tomorrow.

Presented in Multiple Parts

Irit Bardugo’s Bar Mitzvah

Single mom Irit Bardugo''s is planning a spectacular bar mitzvah celebration for her only child. Even when eve...
14 min | Aviya Kalifa Shaked | | Texas Premiere | Hebrew | English
Learn More

Songs of the Sephardim in Izmir

In Izmir, an ancient Turkish city rich with religious history and culture, Ceni is working to preserve Ladinoâ...
15 min | Brooke Saias, Anna Clare Spelman | | Southwest Premiere | Ladino, Turkish, English | English
Learn More

Cut

A short drama that explores antisemitism, queerness, and spirituality. Daniel, a teenage boy caught in a web o...
19 min | Samuel Lucas Allen | | US Premiere | English
Learn More

In the Next Year: Becoming Jewish in Pakistan

The Bene Ephraim are a self-identifying Jewish community in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Judaization ...
10 min | Juergen Schaflechner | | US Premiere | English, Urdu | English
Learn More

The Mohel

A mohel (Jewish ritual circumciser) comes to a party in honor of the birth of his first grandson. He is desper...
8 min | Pnina Geffen, Yochay Rosenberg | | US Premiere | Hebrew, Russian | English
Learn More

Helsinki Yiddish Cabaret

Between 1920 and 1960, Finnish playwright and cabaret artist Jac Weinstein captured the life of the Helsinki J...
10 min | Simon Glass | | US Premiere | English, Yiddish, Finnish | English
Learn More

Nool

Based on a true event, Nool is a young Macaque new to life in an Israeli zoo at the height of a military confl...
8 min | May Grosman | | Southwest Premiere | None
Learn More

A Journey with my Dad

For the first time, Tamar, 5 years old, accompanies her dad to a hotel where vacationers look a bit strange. T...
11 min | Mor Israeli | | Southwest Premiere | None
Learn More

Queer and Frum

The story of two former Orthodox Jews, Chaim Levin and Lieb Swartz-Brownstein, on their unique journeys to bec...
9 min | Miki Katoni | | Texas Premiere | English
Learn More

Yiddish Mean Girls

The iconic four-way phone call scene from the 2004 Lindsay Lohan movie translated completely into the Ashkenaz...
3 min | Dylan Seders Hoffman | | US Premiere | Yiddish | English
Learn More

The Boy

Avinoam and Barak, a father and son from the Gaza Strip, each face the approaching war in their own way. Barak...
26 min | Yahav Winner | | Southwest Premiere | Hebrew | English
Learn More

Showtimes

BUY A PASS

BECOME A SUPPORTER

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:

DETAILS

YEAR: 22-23
RUN TIME: 133 Minutes
PREMIERE STATUS: US, Southwest, and Texas Premieres

countries:

genres:

CREDITS

DIRECTOR(S):Multiple

SHARE THIS:Â