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SHTTL

Q&A with actors Moshe Lobel, Petro Ninovskyi, and Lili Rosen

2022. 114 m. Ady Walter. Menemsha Films. France / Ukraine. Yiddish with subtitles. Rated NR.

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A spellbinding visual masterpiece, SHTTL beautifully captures the life of a vibrant Yiddish-speaking village on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Ukraine. Shot near Kyiv, the film focuses on the vitality of the villagers’ lives as Mendel (Moshe Lobel, Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish) returns to his shtetl from his modern, secular life. This extraordinary film depicts the simmering tensions between tradition and modernity in a place brimming with the romance, politics, and intrigue of everyday life, against the backdrop of looming disaster.

On 5/17: After the Q&A, please join us upstairs in the Jane Peck Gallery for an Opening Night cocktail reception.

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“Extraordinary...an amazing film! It recreates, in a way I’ve rarely seen, just how life in the shtetl might have been. To hear words they used around the Friday night table is both a joy and a ghostly feeling.”
Jason Solomons, The New European

"A masterpiece! Insightful, beautiful, and completely unforgettable. This monumental film feels vital not only as an absolutely essential Jewish film but as an exquisite testament to those beautiful lives that never came to be."
Barry Levitt, Slash Film

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Q&A with actors Moshe Lobel, Petro Ninovskyi, and Lili Rosen

Sunday, May. 21 2023, 6:00

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Moshe Lobel (Mendele) is a native Yiddish speaker from Hasidic Brooklyn, Moshe Lobel debuted on the New York stage as the lead in New Yiddish Rep’s Awake and Sing. In 2018, he joined the cast of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, directed by Oscar and Tony Award-winner Joel Grey. The show won the Drama Desk award for best revival. Moshe has also appeared on HBO’s High Maintenance and Blumhouse’s The Vigil, and he worked on Netflix’s Unorthodox.
Petro Ninovskyi (Noach) is an Ukrainian actor who participated in numerous theater, film, and TV productions in Ukraine. He graduated from The Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre University and is currently in the MFA (Acting) program at Juilliard.
Lili Rosen (Zishe) is a trans actress, writer, producer, and cultural consultant raised in a Yiddish-speaking home in Hasidic Brooklyn. Her credits include the Emmy-winning Unorthodox (Netflix), Amazon’s Undone, Apple’s Little America, and her award-winning short film The Binding of Itzik.

Opening Night Q&A with actors Moshe Lobel, Petro Ninovskyi, Lili Rosen, followed by a reception

Wednesday, May. 17 2023, 6:30

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Moshe Lobel (Mendele) is a native Yiddish speaker from Hasidic Brooklyn, Moshe Lobel debuted on the New York stage as the lead in New Yiddish Rep’s Awake and Sing. In 2018, he joined the cast of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, directed by Oscar and Tony Award-winner Joel Grey. The show won the Drama Desk award for best revival. Moshe has also appeared on HBO’s High Maintenance and Blumhouse’s The Vigil, and he worked on Netflix’s Unorthodox.
Petro Ninovskyi (Noach) is an Ukrainian actor who participated in numerous theater, film, and TV productions in Ukraine. He graduated from The Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi Theatre University and is currently in the MFA (Acting) program at Juilliard.
Lili Rosen (Zishe) is a trans actress, writer, producer, and cultural consultant raised in a Yiddish-speaking home in Hasidic Brooklyn. Her credits include the Emmy-winning Unorthodox (Netflix), Amazon’s Undone, Apple’s Little America, and her award-winning short film The Binding of Itzik.