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Films

2005 FESTIVAL:

The Burial Society
Gloomy Sunday
Molly: The Goldbergs
Nina's Tragedies
Paper Clips
Wondrous Oblivion
Yossi & Jagger

The Burial Society

Director: Nicholas Racz
Country: Canada
Language: English
Running Time: 94 min.
Format: 35mm
Year: 2002

Columbus Premiere

In this quirky, noirish thriller, Sheldon joins the Chevra Kadisha to hide his double life - a gentle, young man and a thief in a Jewish underground crime circle. By stealing a body and staging his own death, he thinks he will escape. But this is just the beginning of his long, downward spiral.