A documentary film about the legacy of the Holocaust in the Balkans, as seen through the eyes -and conflicting memories- of three Bulgarian Jewish survivors in New York. Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II in Bulgaria into the more common narrative of the Shoah. They question the value of their stories and debate whether they are true Holocaust “survivors.”
2021
Temiatyo
Temiatyo is a 22-year-old girl who witnessed firsthand domestic violence suffered by her mother. This unhealthy climate in which she lived makes her an insolent, disrespectful and aggressive girl towards the men in her environment.
Eeb Allay Ooo!
Eeb Allay Ooo! follows the absurd, and at times outright farcical journey of Anjani, a young migrant who is hired to shoo away rampaging monkeys from Government offices by mimicking aggressive langurs- their natural enemies. The struggles and misadventures of Anjani become the lens to examine the realities and contradictions of contemporary India. The underside of a farce, after all, is its involuntary participants.
JuBin
A junior high school girl who stays at the academy until the latest every night to study. When everyone goes home, they take off their clothes and start dancing.
About desires, anxieties, love and hatred that I couldn’t explain in words when I was a kid.
Blanco en blanco
In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a hostile and violent territory, to immortalize the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous.
Bare Trees In The Mist
A young mother (Kaali) and her young son hear that a villager who returned home from abroad has brought them gifts. At first Kaali rejects this possibility outright. But a combination of poverty, desperation and hope eventually makes her walk miles to greet him. At the onset of winter with no contact from her husband – himself somewhere in Arabia – Kaali finds herself on the brink.