Who Will Remain? Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival during the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet — described by the New York Times as the “greatest poet of the Holocaust”— whose verse drew...
Eleanor Of Illinois Eleanor OF ILLINOIS is the most ambitious piece from BOUNTY, my film series exploring the political and psychological complexities of American Jewish wealth. For this piece, I spent over a year culling and editing dialogue from Katharine Hepburn’s performance in The Lion In Winter to craft the monologue of a contemporary, Midwestern, disappointed Jewish mother...
Shtetlers Shtetlers tells the secret story of small Jewish towns in the former Soviet Union. These towns, or shtetls as they were called, were once home to the largest Jewish population in the world. Only a few survived the Holocaust, and those that did were all located in the territory of the modern Ukraine and Moldova....
A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL: Three Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL is an eye-opening portrait of three Bulgarian Jews – Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker on the Lower East side of Manhattan in New York – as they struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II into the more common narrative...
High Score After a young man is fired from his job as a result of his casually offensive behavior, he finds the perfect people to blame: minorities. Newly inspired by the white supremacist ideology of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, we watch as he sinks into the darkest pits of the internet and takes the ideas he...
High Score After a young man is fired from his job as a result of his casually offensive behavior, he finds the perfect people to blame: minorities. Newly inspired by the white supremacist ideology of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, we watch as he sinks into the darkest pits of the internet and takes the ideas he...
Violin The world of the film forms around a unique musical instrument and its incredible journey, that involved witnessing all the horrors of the war. It opens in a violin shop, where at the beginning of the 20 century an instrument was created as a present for a Jewish boy. It ends many years later by...
Witnesses The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting witnesses… Through the history of a pair of women’s shoes, which begins in the shop’s show-window and ends in the show-window of Auschwitz.Through the history of the German Shepherd puppy, which turns into a killer. Through the history of the...
Shoes The film unfolds during 30-40-s of last century and follows a story of a pair of women’s shoes – from a store’s window to the common grave at the Auschwitz concentration camp. There are no dialogues in the film and no faces are shown.