Mizel Arts and Culture Center - 2025 DJFF Shorts Collection

2025 DJFF Shorts Collection (80 min)

Director: Ori Shmueli

Ori persuades his grandfather, Arie, to make a film together, but Arie tries to convince Ori to be socially active instead through past stories - that shed light on Arie himself

Director: Shmuel Elmaleh

Mickey’s son is getting married today – at the winery that he himself has owned and cherished for decades. For 24 years Mickey has preserved a special barrel of wine to open for this occasion. But minutes before the ceremony, the rabbi who is the kosher supervisor at the winery witnesses a non-Jew touching the wine, thus rendering it “Neseh” – forbidden to all Jews. Mickey wants to serve the wine anyway (who’s to know?), but the supervisor is going to make damn sure it doesn’t leave the cellar.

Director: Ori Shmueli

When a young Jewish Persian-American woman tells her parents that her fiancé is Muslim, they make her choose between him and them

Director: Jonah Weinstein

Noah and Jonah are gay Jewish husbands and new parents to a baby boy. When Noah and Jonah's parents arrive at their home expecting a traditional bris for their grandson, Noah and Jonah are forced to reveal that they had something very different in mind for their son: no circumcision

Director: Rachel Lévy

Yaeli, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish young woman, carries a terrible secret that may destroy all her chances of future happiness. David, a brilliant and eligible yeshiva student, seems interested in meeting Yaeli, but her father, in an attempt to protect her from pain and humiliation, refuses to give his permission for the two young people to meet.