JEWISH ANIMATED SHORTS

Co-Presented by Elaine Lindy and Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

THE WALTZ

Directed by Yulia Ruditskaya
USA | 2022 | 5 min | Yiddish with English subtitles

Shadows from an interwar Yiddish poem by A. Lutzky waltz at the edge of a modern world as it crumbles under their feet.

CHALLAH ON THE RUN

Directed by Michael Price
USA | 2023 | 3 min | English

During Shabbos dinner in a remote shtetl, a loaf of challah magically comes to life just as a family is about to eat him!

FLICKERING MOMENTS

Directed by Jelly Galapo
USA | 2022 | 3 min

A child forges a meaningful bond amidst the horrors of the Holocaust.

HUMO

Directed by Rita Basulto
Mexico/USA | 2023 | 12 min | Spanish with English subtitles

Daniel is a boy who travels on a train toward a dark destination: the “smoke house.”

SWIMMING WITH WINGS

Directed by Daphna Awadish Golan
Netherlands | 2023 | 11 min | Dutch, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles

The immigration experience is explored through the eyes of a little Israeli girl learning how to swim with clothes on in the Netherlands.

MAURICE’S BAR

Directed by Tzor Edery and Tom Prezman
Israel/France | 2023 | 14 min | French and Arabic with English subtitles

In 1942 on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen reminisces about a night from her past in one of the first queer bars in Paris. Echoes of customer gossip tell the story of this legendary bar and its mysterious Algerian Jewish owner.

HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEATWAVE AND STAY HUMAN

Directed by Ronni Shalev and Alon Sharabi
Israel | 2022 | 8 min | Hebrew with English subtitles

It’s the hottest day of the year, and Jerusalem is being devoured by a scorching heatwave! In the city center, three roommates live in blissful ignorance under the cool caress of their air conditioner. But when the AC breaks down, one person must venture outside to find a new battery and discover HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEATWAVE AND STAY HUMAN.

THE RECORD

Directed by Jonathan Laskar
Switzerland | 2022 | 9 min | French with English subtitles

An antique music instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record from a traveler. Obsessed by this endless record, the antique dealer listens to it again and again, and the memories reemerge.

ARIEL

Directed by C. A. MacFinn
USA | 2024 | 22 min | English

In the world of the Ottoman Sultans, a poor child from Jerusalem makes an unimaginable desert journey to Cairo and back to save his mother and siblings from a rapacious aristocrat. He has nine days…