Actor Saul Rubinek for Q&A at a screening of “SHTTL”

Join Us for a Special Screening of “SHTTL” with an in-person Q&A with actor, SAUL RUBINEK (of “Unforgiven”, “Wall Street”, “True Romance”)

Directed by Ady Walter
Starring Saul Rubinek (as the Chief Rebbe)

Drama, Ukraine, 2025, 109 Minutes

In Yiddish with English subtitles

Synopsis: A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. SHTTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. Today, there are no such villages in existence; the production fully reconstructed a traditional ‘Shtetl’ outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum.

Starring Saul Rubinek and Moshe Lobel

This film was shot in the Ukraine six months before the war broke out.

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“A CINEMATIC TRIUMPH! Shot in one take, in Yiddish, and under threat of invasion, “Shttl” rebuilds a lost Jewish village with haunting authenticity. Ady Walter may have the most chutzpah of any Jewish director in recent years.” – Alan Zeitlin, Unpacked Media

In partnership with Laemmle Theatres, courtesy of Menemsha FIlms.