SHORTS PROGRAM: "SAYING KADDISH"

Seven shorts curated by Warren Etheredge

[Virtual + Encore In-Person Screening]

THAT IS THE QUESTION | Eyal Tzadik, Yotam Kislev | Short Narrative | Israel | 2022 | Hebrew w/English subtitles | 17:32m | Shay works tirelessly with his father in as shady debt collection business. When they catch an undercover cop who owes them money, Shay is given the option to betray his father and get a second chance for a better life. Will he do it? 

REQUIEM FOR A WHALE | Ido Weisman | Short Documentary | Israel | 2022 | Hebrew w/English subtitles | 15:20m | On a stormy night in early 2021, a whale’s body washed ashore on Israel’s Nitzanim beach. The film documents the strange and curious encounters between people and the carcass, from families and selfie-taking teens to journalists and autopsy officials. The rare interaction evokes a dialogue between life and death.

THE WALTZ | Yulia Ruditskaya | Animated Short | USA | 2022 | Yiddish w/English subtitles | 5m | A beautiful animated short film that brings to life a Yiddish poem by A. Lutzky.

THE ROCK COLLECTION | Maya Adelberg | Short Drama | USA | 2022 | English | 3m | A girl searches for the best stone as a gift for her father.

YOUR STREET (Deine Strasse) | Güzin Kar | Documentary Short | Switzerland | 2020 |German w/English subtitles | 7:28m | A featureless, desolate, and inconspicuous street on an industrial estate in Bonn, Germany, bears the name of a child. The public memorial is meant to commemorate a racially motivated terrorist attack but is consigned to no man’s land. This film explores the risk of collective amnesia.

THE RECORD | Jonathan Laskar | Animated Short | Switzerland | French w/English subtitles | 2022 | 8:37m | An antique instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record from a traveler. With each obsessive listen, memories reemerge until one last and painful memory is revealed: how he got separated from his mother on the Swiss border during WWII.

DEMON BOX | Sean Wainsteim | Animated/Animated/Experimental Short | Canada | English | 14m | After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painfully blunt and funny dissection of the film and of his life, ten years in the making.

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