The Ring<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cLox\u201d has already shown at 30 film festivals and won several awards, including best short film at the Bay Area & Sacramento Short Films Festival. It was originally staged as a one-act play at the 2023 Young Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles and was written by Leo Eigen, then 15, a student at Ramaz, the Jewish day school in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The director is Dan Pavlik of Fremont, who is not Jewish but has filmed enough bar mitzvahs to feel confident with Jewish material. \u201cThis is a quintessential Jewish story, mostly because it\u2019s about family and tradition \u2014 and also bagels,\u201d he said, according to a press release from the EBIJFF. \u201cBut the issue, Alzheimer\u2019s, also makes this film universal.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the film, a man encounters an elderly woman, seemingly a stranger, while waiting in line and strikes up a conversation with her. The woman, Ruth, is played by Bettina Devin, 74, who also produced \u201cLox.\u201d When she saw the 13-minute film at another festival, \u201cit was the only one that got any laughs, as well as tears,\u201d she is quoted in the press release.<\/p>\n
As the line inches forward, it becomes clear that Ruth is having memory problems. Eventually, the other shoe drops. (No spoilers!)<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s East Bay International Jewish Film Festival will feature 22 feature-length films, running from March 7 to 12 at the Century 16 in Pleasant Hill and at Vine Cinema in Livermore on March 22. An online component will be available from March 15 to 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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