SHTTL

“I don’t want to devote my life to just one story. I want to tell many stories.” SHTTL is a movie about stories—past, present, and future. Foremost, it’s the story of Cassandra who can see disaster coming for her home but is unable to stop it. It’s a love story too, and a…

emily

2022 RANKED International Films RANKED The last 5 minutes are brilliant. It's also very well shot and directed with a great cast. However, the narrative and pacing is just a bit too slow and it really struggles to properly get going. Perhaps if I had more of a connection…

Oliver Batchelor

One of the more thoughtful and tragic Holocaust works I’ve come across as of late, in that it seeks to articulate the divergence and heterogeneous quality of Jewish perspective in war time, stepping away from the common inclination to monotholize our victimhood. We know…

Zachary Goldkind (aka, Chaim Kindergelt)

Shtetl — a small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe. The first thing we see onscreen is the date, June 21, 1941. It’s the day before Operation Barbarossa, the largest Nazi invasion that wiped out millions of people and many shtetls like the one we’ll see here. The…

mariomovieboy

This “one-take” film is all set within a close-knit shtetl (Yiddish for village) in 1941. Revolving around one young man who left and went to study film in Kyiv. He comes back to a maelstrom of hate and indifference, just two of many reasons why the community is…

Adam Morris

jewish cinema. nothing quite like it. beautiful.

bando

15 dernières minutes magistrales. Un faux plan séquence bien maîtrisé malgré quelques effets de style qui surchargent un peu la mise en scène. Sujet important, oublié par beaucoup, film nécessaire?  « La vérité ne vient pas des textes mais de ceux qui savent les lire.…

Vladimir

this is quite something. Very intense movie (I am a professional movie critique) PS: I watched this movie comfortably sat in a Parisian cinema between my two respectively 86 and 84 year old Ashkenazi grandmothers. (The implications are self-explanatory)

Andrea

The Nazis are in the movie for less than 5 minutes, and it’s one of the more upsetting experiences I’ve had with a Holocaust movie. You spend time in the shtetl. A lot of time. Too much time. Faux one-shot storytelling creates an experience of life-as-it-is-lived, even if…

B.C. Wallin