Festival Shorts

Don't miss the twenty short films in this year's program, each of which tells a big story.

Eat Up! Short & Sweet

Eat Up! Short & Sweet

Dig into these short, sweet, and sometimes spicy films that explore the hallowed Jewish ground of mealtime.

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Friday August 1, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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Tidbits: Narrative Shorts

Tidbits: Narrative Shorts

Brevity translates to boldness in this collection of shorts that takes you through the peaks and valleys of human experience. Get ready to laugh, cry, and repeat.

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Saturday August 2, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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A Dose of Reality: Documentary Shorts

A Dose of Reality: Documentary Shorts

Enjoy this crop of nonfiction shorts, each offering a unique take on truth-telling—from the hard-hitting to the light-hearted.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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Animated New Yorkers: Joel

Animated New Yorkers: Joel

Joel, an ex-ultra-Orthodox young man, tells the story of his first romantic encounter.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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The Auschwitz Bagel

The Auschwitz Bagel

Three siblings are forced to reckon with their father’s new sexuality and familial dysfunction at a particularly awkward time—their great aunt’s funeral. Playing as part of Eat Up! Short & Sweet Festival Shorts Program

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Bounded

Bounded

A 3D-animated journey through Kibbutz Gevim reveals an unexpected encounter among those who stayed behind after the events of October 7.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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Bulldozer

Bulldozer

An under-medicated, chronically impassioned young woman lurches from crisis to crisis—of her own making.

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Sunday July 27, 2025
6:30 p.m.
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Fire At Will

Fire At Will

When parents gather their four adult children over dinner to solidify the family will, the children's self-absorbed agendas send the conversation careening into chaos.

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Friday Night Flop

Friday Night Flop

A mother tries desperately to reconnect with her estranged daughter.

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Miriam

Miriam

The girl chosen to be the first Bat Mitzvah of her Orthodox community schemes to skip Hebrew lessons and pursue her one true passion: skateboarding.

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The Orange at the Seder

The Orange at the Seder

When Adam brings his first-ever girlfriend to his mentor's queer, all-male Passover seder, he must come out again, jeopardizing his relationship with his chosen family.

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Parkway Hop

Parkway Hop

Ex-lovers Matt and Aviva meet for the first time since Matt became an Orthodox Jew. As they walk together, they reflect on how each of them has changed.

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Saturday August 2, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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Revived

Revived

After a night out at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron finds his bag is missing. Unable to return home without it, he receives help from Sefi, the bartender. 

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Saturday August 2, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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The Sacred Society

The Sacred Society

A documentary animated in sand about the volunteers who clean, dress, and prepare bodies for burial according to Jewish tradition.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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The Stage Is Ours

The Stage Is Ours

Nearly 50 Jewish actors, playwrights, and directors gather at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre to reflect on the history and meaning of Jewish theater.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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Taste of Heaven

Taste of Heaven

Baruch dreams of going to heaven after this life—so he marries a woman who puts him through hell. That is, until everything takes a turn.

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Saturday August 2, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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Thanks, Babs!

Thanks, Babs!

Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed racing through life, one five-year plan at a time.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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Tongue Behind Teeth

Tongue Behind Teeth

A fifteen-year-old Bukharan immigrant in Israel pursues her ambitions through a relationship with a twenty-one-year-old Russian newcomer, forcing her to confront the true cost of social climbing.

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Saturday August 2, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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Unholy

Unholy

A girl goes to her family's Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube for a chronic illness.

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Tears Tears Only Tears

Tears Tears Only Tears

A young woman and her ex-lover embark on a road trip to euthanize her beloved dog. Along the way, they confront buried emotions, irreversible choices, and realizations that ultimately set them both free.

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Saturday August 2, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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A Word Required

A Word Required

I ran away from home in October, just when the war started. In this liminal time, I encountered both the beauty and grief of being connected and attached.

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Sunday August 3, 2025
12:30 p.m.
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