SHTTL Centrepiece Film

Drama

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The Leonard Wolinsky Foundation

Ontario Premiere

June 11, 1:00 pm

In-person

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

June 13 – June 14

Online

TJFF Virtual Cinema

Countries		France, Ukraine
Year		2022
Running Time		114 MIN
Language		Yiddish
Subtitles		English
Director		Ady Walter

ASL

Audience Award Winner, Rome Film Festival 2022
Photographed in a shtetl that the production team constructed outside of Kyiv, this single-shot film is entirely in Yiddish. Set in the twenty-four hours before the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, SHTTL tells a story about life, love and hope set in an unnamed Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland. Amid communal tensions between tradition and modernity, two young men are fighting over a woman they both desire to marry. The cast features some native Yiddish speakers, including Saul Rubinek. With its focus on life rather than death, it is a tribute to those who perished.

Reminder: all festival films not in English are subtitled.

In-person Guest	Actor Saul Rubinek
With Support From	Peretz Miransky Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto; May & Gerald Cohen Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto; The Committee for Yiddish of UJA Federation
Co-presented With
Reviews	“A towering, single-take masterpiece of the lives we've lost ... A keenly observed, deeply cathartic movie" *Slash Film* "‘SHTTL’ is already one of the year’s best films ... It is a film that deserves a viewing on the loftiest screen available. This film left me breathless." *Reel News Daily*

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