On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi

Having celebrated their 65th anniversary with their children and grandchildren, Nani and Popi seem happy and content. It comes as a shock for everyone, therefore, when a short time later, Popi, aged 95, comes out as gay. Or almost everyone: as it turns out his wife knew about it all along, but decided to keep her family together at the cost of her own happiness. On My Way Out tells an extraordinary story about relationships, family and the sacrifices we make to keep them intact.

Summer

Two teenage girls experience their sexual awakening together while at a Hassidic summer camp.

Sunset

A young man is torn between his sense of duty to serve his country and his wish to stay with his male lover in New York in the days following Pearl Harbor.

Starboy

Winner – Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film 2018
Winner – Best LGBTQ Short, Hollyshorts 2019, Los Angeles
World Premiere at the UK Jewish Film Festival 2018

Yehud, 19, a young married Hassidic man raised in a sheltered community, has all of his life been on the path traditionally followed by all Hassidic Jews. But when he immerses himself in the deep dark secrets of the Kabbalah and the study of quantum mechanics, his pious young wife doesn’t understand why there are suddenly so many unorthodox books in their small cramped Stamford Hill flat. And why he is no longer content with raising their baby son and just happy with the regular study of the Torah. What is he trying to tell her? And what will happen to him – and to them?

As Yehud obsessively searches for answers to his many burning mystical questions, increasingly doubting his own identity, and the nature of being, their conflict grows – with irreparable and shocking consequences.

“Starboy is a surprising, engrossing, distinctive, visually stunning and thought-provoking  film with outstanding performances from its two young actors – A true original !” Nik Powell, Film Producer

2019 Iris Prize Best British Short Nominee

Official Selection:
OUTFEST Los Angeles 2019
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2019
Sao Paolo International Short Film Festival 2019
The Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, San Diego 2019
UK Jewish Film Festival 2018
CINEQUEST 2020 
Crystal Palace International Film Festival (Nominated, Best Short) 
Oxford International Short Film Festival 2020 
Festival of Tolerance in Zagreb 2020

The Rabbi

A yeshiva-bocher confesses a secret to his rabbi-teacher awakening disturbing thoughts in him.