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Shttl
November 12, 2023 @ 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Ukraine/France 2022 | Director: Ady Walter | Yiddish with English subtitles | 114 minutes
Drama
Entirely in Yiddish, and featuring visually compelling black and white cinematography, SHTTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Jewish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland. Mendele, who has been living a secular life in Kyiv, finds himself back in the familiar world of his shtetl where, amid simmering communal tensions between tradition and modernity, he is fighting for the hand of the woman he loves. Set in the 24 hours before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film captures a day in the life of this unnamed village – a vibrant place brimming with the romance, politics, and intrigue of everyday life – in the context of a world about to disappear. The absence of the letter “e” in the film’s title symbolizes a vacuum, an empty space, a gaping hole, where once a world existed.
