NAKAM

95th OSCARS® Shortlist

NAKAM

Ukraine 1942. Twelve year old violinist Mitka plays in a Ukrainian restaurant with pianist Yegor. Nobody knows that Mitka is part of a Jewish partisan movement. When an opportunity arises to execute an attack on SS officers in the restaurant, Mitka puts his only friend Yegor at the risk of death.

 

Watch film here

ARD-Mediathek | German subtitles | 33 min

www.ardmediathek.de/video/kurzfilm/nakam/swr

 

Inspired by the true story from Motele Schlein. Today, his violin is in Yad Vashem -
Holocaust Remembrance Center.

CAST

Anton Krymskiy, Peter Miklusz, Jevgenij Sitochin, Rostyslav Bome, Irina Usova

CREW

Director

Screenwriter

Producer

Cinematography

Score

Costumes

Editing

Setdesign

SWR | Television

Andreas Kessler

Fabien Virayie

Max Breuer, Janick Gootz

Leonard Caspari

Ege Ateslioglu

Laura Jasmin Schäffler

Christoph Hans

Julie Griebau, Natasha Donis

Joachim A. Lang, Katharina Maria Kontny

 

BROADCAST ON TELEVISION

Currently available on ARD-Mediathek

SWR, ARD | 28.04.2023

www.ardmediathek.de/video/kurzfilm/nakam/swr

 

FESTIVALS

95th OSCARS® | Shortlist

46th CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Worldpremiere) | BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT (OSCAR QUALIFYING)

51st Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival | HONORARY MENTION

26th LA Shorts International Film Festival

42nd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival | Semi-Finalist

19th DC Shorts Film Festival

Corti da Sogni Antonio Ricci - International Short Film Festival

filmreif! - das Bundesfestival junger Film

FEST - New Directors New Films Festival, Portugal

Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

16. Fünf Seen Filmfestival

Cordillera International Film Festival, USA

Stark County International Short Film Series 2022

21. Filmz Festival des deutschen Kinos | AUDIENCE AWARD

Filmtage Oberschwaben

Weyauwega International Film Festival, USA

31. Euroshorts Young Filmmakers, Poland

FilmSlam® Streams of the Cleveland IFF 2022

Rome Prisma Film Awards 2022 | BEST OF FEST, DIRECTOR, COSTUME DESIGN, LEADING AND SUPPORTING ACTOR

26th Miami Jewish Film Festival | AUDIENCE AWARD

22nd Anchorage International Film Festival, USA | AUDIENCE AWARD

28. Filmschau Baden-Württemberg

Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival | AUDIENCE AWARD

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

Sacramento Jewish Film Festival

United Artists International Film Festival

Robinson International Short Film Competition

Vancouver Independent Film Festival | WINNER

Art is Alive Film Festival

39th European Film Festival of Lille

Kirchliches Filmfestival Recklinghausen

Bucharest ShorCut CineFest

Gula Jewish Film Festival, Israel | AUDIENCE AWARD

27th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, San Francisco

50th Athens International Film and Video Festival

Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, USA | NOMINEE BEST SHORT

Lighthouse International Film Festival, USA

Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival | AUDIENCE AWARD

ABQ Indie Film Festival | NOMINEE BEST STUDENT FILM, WINNER BEST DIRECTING

The Look of Sound

Jewish Community Center Chicago

New York Indie Shorts Awards

Golden Short Film Festival | OVERALL AWARD

32nd Annual Woods Hole Film Festival | AUDIENCE AWARD, BEST SOUND DESIGN

Filmsommer Festival 2023

Crested Butte Film Festival

The Pigeon International Film Festival, Iceland | BEST SHORT FILM

Gig Harbor Film Festival

Zion International Film Festival, USA

Aladerri International Film Festival | BEST ACTOR NOMINEE

Orlando Film Festival

Pittsburgh Shorts & Script Competition

34th CineWorld Film Festival

Tamuz Shomron Film Festival, Israel | JURY AWARD BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM

São Paulo Film Festival, Brasil | BEST DIRECTOR

Directors Circle Festival of Shorts

30th Sedona International Film Festival | DIRECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD BEST STUDENT SHORT, AUDIENCE CHOICE WINNER BEST STUDENT SHORT

ONE Country ONE Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival, France

12th Short Film Breaks, Romania

Capital City Film Festival, USA

PRESS

A.FRAME OSCARS

VARIETY

Selig Film News - Interview

Baltimore Jewish Times

Blickpunkt:Film

Bain’s Film Reviews

Take2Indie Review

Classic Couple Academy

Black and Paper

CLOSE-UP CULTURE - INTERVIEW

San Clemente - Interview

Eye For Film - Interview

FilmandTVNow - Interview

The House - Review

The Times of Israel

UK FILM REVIEW

Awardsdaily - Interview

Solzy at the Movies - Interview

Baden Online

Stuttgarter Zeitung Nakam Film

Stuttgarter Zeitung

One Film Fan

Deed News

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ARTWORK