The Sacred Society  

Documentary – Short  | Director: Benny Zelkowicz | United States | 2025 | 12 Mins | English 

In the end, our bodies are as fragile and ephemeral as paintings made of sand. Who will care for them when our time is over? 
 
There is a group of volunteers in Jewish tradition who clean and prepare and dress the dead. THE SACRED SOCIETY is about these men, why they choose this work, and how it changes them. Illustrated with flowing, haunting sand animation, this documentary explores the importance of sacred ritual in helping us find meaning in our brief lives. 

Of the Heart 

Documentary – Short | Director: Alex Salsberg | United States | 2024 | 12 Mins | English 

Of The Heart is a unique documentary capturing real and raw moments of intergenerational friendship through recorded conversations between four pairs of friends, illustrated by charming an inventive animation. These friends talk about everything: walks, smells, hope, regret, loss, dementia, the medical system, with plenty to laugh about too. 

A Name That is Not Mine 

Narrative – Short | Director: Dario Piana | Italy | 2025 | 12 Mins | Italian 

One only has to walk through the streets of any Italian city to realise how many Nazi-related signs still f ill the walls we pass. Mostly swastikas. So we asked ourselves: is it possible that there are still people today, in the 21st century, who are attracted to that symbol?  

 
Is it possible that there are still those who find fascination in a swastika, a symbol that carries so much pain?  
 

So we thought that in order to tell what horrors lay behind the swastika and what nefarious deeds had been committed in the shadow of that sign, we needed to tell the story of those who had experienced those horrors first-hand. This is where we thought of Irena Sendler, the Polish nurse, also known as 'the Schindler of Warsaw', who  
saved almost 3,000 Jewish children from the ghetto. We are convinced that, never before as today, it is necessary for us to make ourselves the living memory of that past, specially now that the direct protagonists are disappearing and anti-Semitism is returning even  
more fiercely in the daily news around the world, although it has never disappeared completely, unfortunately. There is a need for children to know those stories, to  
imagine the lives of those bodies piled on top of each other outside a hut in one of the concentration camps that they are shown, especially on Holocaust Memorial Day. 

War Before Bedtime 

Animation – Short | Director: Tehila Lapidot | Israel 2024 | 2 Mins | Hebrew 

One only has to walk through the streets of any Italian city to realise how many Nazi-related signs still f ill the walls we pass. Mostly swastikas. So we asked ourselves: is it possible that there are still people today, in the 21st century, who are attracted to that symbol?  

The Windows on Rue Saint-Dominique

Documentary – Short | Director: Simcha Shtull | Canada | 2025 | 28 Mins | English 

On a visit to Montreal several decades ago, a young man visited his uncles' egg distribution warehouse. In a dusty storeroom filled with clutter, he discovered stacks of matching stained-glass windows, each with a Star of David in the center. By the time the building was sold some 20 years later, all of these windows had vanished from the storeroom. 

​"The Windows on Rue Saint-Dominique" follows the filmmaker's quest to find the windows and the surprising discoveries that unfold along the way. 

While the film centers on the filmmaker's personal immigrant family story from the last century, it also weaves a broader portrait of early Jewish immigrant life in Montreal. It addition, it explores the issue of material culture, and the meanings we attribute to objects — meanings that shift with time, place and circumstance. 

Guygu 

Animation - Documentary – Short | Director: Chen Heifetz | Jordan Barr | Israel 2025 | 7 Mins | Hebrew 

A short animated documentary about Guy Gilboa Dalal, who was kidnapped from the Nova party and is being held as a hostage by Hamas. 

The short film features Guy's story through the voices of his family. They share memories from his childhood, recount the traumatic events of his abduction, and describe Guy's love of anime and his hopes for the trip of a lifetime to Japan.  

The film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy – between the horrifying moments of the kidnapping, drawn from real footage provided by Guy’s family, and the agonizing silence that followed. What has he endured in captivity? How does he pass the time?  
We focused on the hope that, in his darkest hours, Guy might find solace in the fantastical worlds he conjured up, inspired by the anime he adores.  
This film was created using 2d animation, with art design and direction heavily inspired by anime films and TV shows.