Kaddish
Director: Razid Season
Short: Narrative
War Drama |
USA |
15 min
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In 1943, during World War II – Akiva; a young Ashkenazi Jew, risks a journey through Miechów in Poland, in order to fulfill his obligation of honoring his deceased mother on the anniversary of her death. When he gets arrested by the Nazis, he discovers a known elderly Rabbi is being held by the Nazis. The rabbi (who has lost his entire family in the Holocaust), relies on young Akiva to escape Poland for the Promised Land.
Director’s bio:
Razid Season is an independent filmmaker. He has graduated in MFA in Film from CUNY. Razid was one of the recipients of the State Department’s filmmaking scholarship in 2015. Under that scholarship, he made a documentary called ‘Battle For Speech’ (2015). In the same year, he received a full scholarship from the University of California, San Diego to study International Relations & Pacific Studies at the graduate level. He used to work at the Bangladesh Film Institute as the editor of its biannual film Journal, The Moving Image. He has received a number of awards for his films—IIUSFS 2015 for ‘Rules’ (2014), the NYMAN 2018 Award for Maze (2017) and Best Narrative Award from ISA 2018 Los Angeles.