Schedule:

7:00 p.m: Houston Jewish Film Festival: An Evening of Shorts
Director Julia Elihu in attendance
Girl No. 60427
Drama - Directed by Shulamit Lifshitz - 2022 - Israel - Hebrew with English subtitles - 22 minutes - Kaplan Theatre
Tel Aviv, 1998. Reut finds her grandmother’s hidden Holocaust diary, transforming her carefree summer into a profound connection with her past.

Winter of ’79
Drama - Directed by Julia Elihu - 2022 - USA - Persian with English subtitles - 20 minutes
A Persian-Jewish mother questions her faith in her country. Based on Julia Elihu’s family’s experiences escaping Iran during the 1979 Revolution.

Sevap/Mitzvah
Drama - Directed by Sabina Vajrača - 2023 - Bosnia, Herzegovina - English, Bosnian with English subtitles - 20 minutes
In Nazi-occupied Bosnia, a Muslim woman risks everything to save her Jewish friends. Fifty years later, during the Balkan War, the tables have turned.

In The Garden of Tulips
Drama - Directed by Julia Elihu - 2023 - USA - Persian with English subtitles - 14 minutes
Persian-Jewish teenager Caroline takes a final car ride with her father through the Iranian countryside before she is smuggled out of the country.