Saint Louis Jewish Film Festival

Schedule:

3:30-5pm: Heritage Day/The Catskills Double Feature

Heritage Day

Eight-year-old Evie becomes obsessed with playing Holocaust after dressing up as her estranged grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, for “Heritage Day” at school. Inspired by a true event, this dark comedy explores the strife between mother and child, and how society reckons with its past.

Writer/Director: Lara Everly
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Short Film/Dark Comedy
Duration: 20 minutes

The Catskills
With a trove of lost-and-found archival footage and a cast of characters endowed with the gift of gab, The Catskills journeys into the storied mountain getaway north of New York City that served as refuge for Jewish immigrants fleeing poverty as well as a lavish playground for affluent Jewish families.

Writer/Director: Lex Gillespie
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 81 minutes

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7-9pm: Love Gets A Room

Inspired by true events during the 1942 Nazi occupation of Poland, this is a story of a Jewish stage actress who must make the gut-wrenching decision to follow her heart or to escape the Warsaw ghetto. The film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances.

Director: Rodrigo Cortéz
Country: Spain/UK
Language: English/Various dialect with English subtitles
Genre: Romantic Drama
Duration: 93 minutes

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