109 MIN / NR / Drama / Yiddish w/ English Subtitles / Menemsha Films
SYNOPSIS:
June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigue of this seemingly ordinary event is that Yuna – the bride – loves another man and he, Mendele… plans to kidnap her. At this very time, a Nazi death squad is approaching the shtetl.
Emerging Filmmaker Jury Prize (Ady Walter) | Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2023
Audience Award Winner | Rome Film Festival 2022
Centerpiece Gala Film | UK Jewish Film Festival 2022
U.S. Premiere | New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2023
“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
“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
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)
Come join us for an art session exploring “The Yiddish Art” through WW2, relating to the showing of “Shttl” on Thursday, January 8th,2026, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
The Art class includes all materials & tuition, $30,00 per pers payable @ the event. For any additional info contact sebagsylvie@hotmai.com