HERITAGE DAY is a short film playing at the Spokane Jewish Film Festival.
HERITAGE DAY was a reflective film about how we honor and remember those who suffered greatly in the concentration camps during WWII. Dressing up as your Bubbe looking like a Holocaust survivor during a school’s HERITAGE DAY activities sets all sorts of emotional problems and angst in motion for Evie’s family. It forces a community to address its history truly and allows a family to accept its dark past, with all its implications for the future.Â
HERITAGE DAY explores what most families are trying to forget. One child…one incident can all bring our worst times crashing into the present. It was an intentional choice by a young girl who yearns for connection and to be seen for all she brings to the table every day. It stands as a reminder…we are who we are. The good, the bad. And the very ugly. We cannot run away from the generations on whose shoulders we stand.Â
HERITAGE DAY in twenty brief minutes gave audiences much to think about.Â