Tuesday, January 20 - January 26, 2026
PJFM On Demand

Digital Chutzpah Shorts Showcase

Name: Digital Chutzpah Shorts Showcase
Start: 2026-01-20T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-26T23:59:00-05:00
Location: PJFM On Demand

This event has passed.

Details

Start: Tuesday, January 20 | 12:00 AM EST
End: Monday, January 26 | 11:59 PM EST
Event Categories: Events Calendar, Streaming On Demand

Venue

PJFM On Demand

FREE FREE Sponsors (included as a benefit) $20 Individual Ticket (Open to PA Residents Only) $180 All-Access Pass: Fest at Home

Open to PJFM Sponsors, All-Access Pass + PA residents only

GOODBYE, DOLLY

Director Becca-Willow Moss
Short | Canada | 36 min | English
World Premiere

As a stylized documentary, Goodbye, Dolly uses tropes of the 1964 Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! It hybridizes theatrical elements within the context of everyday life, based on Becca-Willow Moss’s growing up as – and growing into – a Jewish woman. Goodbye, Dolly is an autobiographical work, dealing with themes of grief, food, and fear.

HOLDING ON

Director Maya Bitan and Daniel Pakes
Short | Israel | 13 min | Hebrew and Spanish with English Subtitles

A successful choreographer based in Spain returns to his birthplace, Israel, to create a new dance piece. On his way, he encounters scenes of war and occupation. The reality gradually seeps into the rehearsal room.

MATZAH BALL SOUP w/ KETCHUP

Director Jacob Perdue
Short | USA | 24 min | English
World Premiere

Matzah Ball Soup w/ Ketchup is an intimate documentary that captures the warmth, humor, and complexity of Jewish-American identity through one woman’s kitchen. As a mother-in-law, Beth Arager, prepares for the Passover Seder, the film invites viewers into a world where tradition simmers on the stove and memory flavors every dish. Told from a first-person perspective, this culinary portrait unfolds with candor and care, blending family history with contemporary reflections on what it means to be Jewish in America today.

THE ROAD

Director Miryam Sas
Short | USA/Ukraine | 14 min | English
World Premiere

Shot in the tranquil streets of Berkeley, with shared footage from a living room in today’s war-torn Ukraine, this film reflects on what is hidden beneath our everyday lives across time and space. With voice-over by scholars Naomi Seidman and John Efron, this short experimental documentary describes the uses of Jewish headstones in Eastern Europe as building materials for roads during and after World War II, even as a little girl in today’s war-torn Ukraine, living in above those same roads, creates art out of clay and connects to the creatures of the earth.