Kristallnacht Commemoration: Screening of ‘SHTTL’

Join us for a screening of the remarkable, award-winning film ‘SHTTL’, which hauntingly and poignantly depicts the vibrant life of a shtetl moments before the cataclysmic Nazi invasion of Soviet Ukraine in 1941 and the ultimate destruction of East European Jewry. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with ‘SHTTL’ starring actor Moshe Lobel about this innovative and thought-provoking tour de force. The film is entirely in Yiddish with English subtitles.

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“EXTRAORDINARY… AN AMAZING FILM! It recreates, in a way I’ve rarely seen, just how life in the shtetl might have been. To hear words they used around the Friday night table is both a joy and a ghostly feeling.” – Jason Solomons, The New European 10 out of 10

“A MASTERPIECE! Insightful, beautiful, and completely unforgettable. This monumental film feels vital not only as an absolutely essential Jewish film but as an exquisite testament to those beautiful lives that never came to be.” – Barry Levitt, /Film (Slashfilm)

“One of the most spell-binding films of this year’s festival, Shttl beautifully captures the life and loves of a Yiddish-speaking village on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Ukraine. Mendele, who is living a modern, secular life in Kyiv finds himself drawn back to the familiar and comforting world of the shtetl. Unravelling the simmering tensions between tradition and modernity, director Ady Walter’s debut masterpiece, which is filmed in one extraordinary long shot, recreates a world on the precipice of disaster.” – UK Jewish Film Festival

SHTTL features an international cast headlined by Brooklyn-based actor Moshe Lobel ( The Vigil, Netflix’s Unorthodox) and award-winning veteran actor Saul Rubinek ( Hunters, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Warehouse 13, Unforgiven).