Atlantic Jewish Film Festival – Short Program

Bring your lunch to the Short Program! Special guest, Stephen Cooke, will be in attendance at the Short Program.

WOMEN IN SINK

Hebrew with English subtitles

Director/Producer: Iris Zaki
Distributor: Go2Films
Country: UK, Israel   Year: 2015  Running Time: 36 minutes
The Jewish director of this film installed a camera over the hair washing basin in a small salon owned by a Christian Arab woman in Haifa, Israel. As she washes their hair, she talks with the clients, both Jews and Arabs, posing questions about life in Israel. What emerges from these conversations is an honest and nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel.

THE CHOP

English

Director: Lewis Rose
Producer: Daphne Hocguard
CAST Amir Boutrous, Andy Linden, Daniel Kramer, Sajid Varda
Distributor: Salaud Morisset
Country: UK    Year: 2015   Running Time: 17 minutes
Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher with lightning quick knife-wielding skills, angers his boss and loses his job. He does the rounds of other kosher butchers to no avail so decides to disguise himself as Muslim in order to find work at a Halal butcher shop. While this short film is a comedy incorporating “fish out of water” and laugh-out-loud slapstick humour, it’s also a story that explores the relationship between Jews and Muslims.

A CANTOR ON TRIAL

Yiddish with English Subtitles

Director/Producer: Sidney M. Goldin
CAST: Louis “Leibele” Waldman
Music by Sholem Secunda
Distributor: The National Center for Jewish Film
Country: USA   Year: 1931   Running Time: 10 minutes
In this hilarious musical comedy gem, legendary cantor Leibele Waldman plays all three candidates auditioning for a synagogue committee in search of a High Holidays cantor. Displeased
with the first two applicants, a Galitzianer and a Daytsher (German), the committee finds its man: a modern chazan with “pep and jazz” who does Kol Nidre with a “two-step.”

Canada Premiere of New Digital Restoration & new English subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Film

JOE’S VIOLIN

English

Director: Kahane Cooperman
Producers:  Kahane Cooperman, Raphaela Neihausen
CAST: Joe Feingold, Brianna Perez
Distributor: Go2Films
Country: USA    Year 2016    Running Time: 24 minutes
In this award winning documentary short, a 91 year old Holocaust survivor donates the violin he’s owned for 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12 year old girl from one of America’s poorest districts and, unexpectedly, his own. Joe’s Violin poignantly shows how a small act can have great impact.