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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

short films

From left to right: Yahli Chen, Noga Peleg, Aya Atzilia, and Leah Winkler, Nofei Habsor students who directed the short film "The Kidnapping," in a Channel 12 report, November 29, 2023. (Channel 12 news: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 29, 2023, 12:31 pm
Nir Oz high schoolers made prescient short film about abduction months before Oct. 7
Aya Atzili, whose parents were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, says movie was meant to be ‘imaginary,’ group ‘laughed about it’; students vow to return, live in community
By Michael Horovitz
Anton Krymskiy as Mitke in 'Nakam' (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Leonard Caspari)
December 20, 2022, 4:25 am
Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan
Made as a film school thesis project, ‘NAKAM’ is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A still from the new Netflix animated documentary 'Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis.' (Courtesy of Netflix)
December 11, 2021, 9:02 am
How European Jewish refugees wined and dined Nazi prisoners for US Army intelligence
New short animated Netflix doc ‘Camp Confidential’ by Israeli directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan unearths a controversial top-secret program that helped America win the Cold War
By Rich Tenorio
Sophie McShera as housekeeper 'Lynn' in short film 'Ganef' by Mark Rosenblatt (Alana Mejia Gonzalez)
September 30, 2021, 12:58 am
‘Downton Abbey’ actress ‘maid’ for film on Holocaust survivor trauma in 1960s UK
In ‘Ganef,’ streaming via the Manhattan Short Film Festival through Oct. 3, Sophie McShera plays a London housekeeper challenged by her employer, who survived Auschwitz
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Mickey Paatzsch, left, and Arkadij Khaet on set. (Courtesy of 'Masel Tov Cocktail'/ via JTA)
February 21, 2021, 8:24 am
Short film ‘Masel Tov Cocktail’ explodes stereotypes about young Jews in Germany
The darkly comic 30-minute flick by Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch pokes fun at a society still not fully at ease with its Jews; it’s now screening at online film festivals
By Joe Baur
An image from 'White Eye,' the award-winning, 20-minute short film by Tomer Shushan (Courtesy White Eye)
February 14, 2021, 1:29 pm
Israeli film shortlisted for live action short Oscar
‘White Eye’ is Tomer Shushan’s debut film about migrant workers in Tel Aviv
By Jessica Steinberg
Three of the main characters in Inbar Horesh's new short film, 'Birth Right,' about questions of identity in Israel (Courtesy Inbar Horesh)
November 18, 2020, 6:21 am
Young Russians play out their ‘Birth Right’ in Israeli short film
Filmmaker Inbar Horesh offers a brief but telling glance at questions of Jewish identity among tourists who meet immigrant soldiers from their homeland
By Jessica Steinberg
"I wanted to show a different side that we don’t normally get to see,” Talia Osteen, the writer and director behind "Shabbos Goy," said of the short film's depiction of Orthodoxy. (Courtesy/Talia Osteen via JTA)
August 1, 2020, 12:34 am
Vibrator stars in short film challenging portrayal of Orthodox Jews in Hollywood
Los Angeles director Talia Osteen’s new movie ‘The Shabbos Goy’ upends stereotypes with a comedy about a religious woman who needs a non-Jew to turn off her sex toy
By Shira Hanau
Israeli filmmaker Dekel Berenson. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2019, 12:35 am
British Independent Film Award marks new chapter in Israeli filmmaker’s career
Traveling writer and director Dekel Berenson looks to parlay the recent BIFA win for his third and latest short film, ‘Anna,’ into funding for a feature-length collection
By Anne Joseph
Herbert Gildin and two of his grandchildren, Tyler Gildin, right, and Alex Utay. Utay was a producer on the film. (Courtesy Tyler Gildin)
November 13, 2019, 3:20 pm
In film, grandfather returns to Sweden to thank post-Kristallnacht saviors
In short doc ‘The Starfish,’ an extended family travels to Falun, Sweden, to meet righteous gentiles who sheltered their patriarch
By Rich Tenorio
Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky with her husband, Jeff, and their son, Philip, as a baby. (From the film 'Grateful')
November 6, 2019, 11:44 pm
In film, recently deceased Jewish naturopath says ALS actually ‘saved her life’
In a short documentary screening November 7, wife, mom and triathlete Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky sends a message of vital hope as she turned an 18-month prognosis into 10 years
By Rich Tenorio
'Skin' actors Lonnie Chavis (left) and Jackson Robert Scott (right) with director Guy Nattiv (center) (Courtesy 'Skin' official Facebook page)
February 26, 2019, 12:04 pm
Oscar winner Guy Nattiv’s next film probes grandma’s cult past
‘Harmony’ is a documentary about the Holocaust survivor’s mysterious and ‘devastating’ decision to leave her life in Israel and join a compound in Virginia
By Jessica Steinberg
An image from 'Slow Down,' the award-winning Avraham Heffner film that changed the world of Israeli cinema and has been restored in his memory, and will be shown in Israeli theaters in September 2018 (Courtesy 'Slow Down')
August 30, 2018, 10:44 am
Groundbreaking Israeli short film, now 50, gets royal treatment
‘Voice Over,’ made by six Israeli directors and starring major actors, reboots Avraham Heffner’s award-winning work from the 1960s, and marks four years since his death
By Jessica Steinberg
Seniors from Sun City in Palm Springs, California gather for Shabbat dinner at their local Wendy's fast food restaurant, as seen in 'Wendy's Shabbat' short documentary film (Courtesy of 3 Penny)
February 16, 2018, 8:17 pm
Jewish seniors fight isolation with a fast food community in ‘Wendy’s Shabbat’
Filmmaker Rachel Myers’s 88-year-old grandmother stars in a short documentary film that is striking a chord with online and festival viewers
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An Israeli soldier does a mock dance with his rifle in “Foxtrot.” (Sony Pictures Classics)
January 20, 2018, 10:27 am
The 5 best Jewish films to watch this Oscar season
From award contenders to short gems, there is no shortage of high-quality works to see
By Tom Tugend
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