We Have Sinned Before You
2024 | 20 min | Israel | Hebrew
On Yom Kippur, a family’s annual unplugged tradition takes an unexpected turn when a forgiveness game exposes buried secrets and long-simmering tensions, transforming a day of atonement into a revealing and emotionally charged reckoning.
Guygu
2025 | 7 min | Israel | Hebrew
Gugyu is a haunting, imaginative portrait of Guy, an anime-loving young man kidnapped on October 7. Blending verified footage with dreamlike fantasy, the film navigates between brutal reality and the inner world that endures in captivity.
Days Between Rest
2025 | 11 min | Uganda | English, Hebrew
The film follows Rachel Namudosi, a third-generation Ugandan Jew and Grammy-nominated Abayudaya singer, as she balances family, faith and music—sharing a resilient story of identity, inclusion and hope within her community.
Shoah, Bernard Orès
2023 | 14 min | Polish, French, German, Ukrainian
During WWII, in the ghetto of Przemysl, Poland, Bernard and two comrades hide in a bunker dug under the roadway to escape deportation.
The Sacred Society
2025 | 12 min | USA | English
Employing a visually stunning sand animation technique, the film recreates a tahara, the ritual cleansing of a body before burial, while exploring the universal questions surrounding death. Chevra Kadisha members reveal the deep spiritual meaning and comfort in this ancient practice.
The Client
2023 | 17 min | Israel | Hebrew, Arabic
Karin, a human rights lawyer, unexpectedly finds herself spending her day babysitting Nasrin, the 12-year-old daughter of her Palestinian client. This film explores themes of human connection and conflict in a brief, poignant narrative.
Yiddish Mean Girls
2022 | 3 min | USA | Yiddish
“That’s so fetch!” This sharp, playful short features off-Broadway performers from the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene putting a Jewish, Yiddish-inflected spin on Mean Girls, blending humor and performance to celebrate contemporary Jewish creativity and women-led storytelling.
Liorah
2020 | 5 min | UK | English
The film is a visually poetic documentary that draws us into the world of artist Liorah Tchiprout. Her art, quietly radical, explores themes of identity and belonging—her shelter amid a cultural landscape increasingly hostile to Jews.
Sponsored by Friends of Lisa Sheinbaum
Community Partner: American Jewish Committee
