40 Nickels
[Plays Nov. 11-16 during the Austin Jewish Film Festival; for information, log on to https://austinjff.org/event-list/] Gorgeous cinematography highlights Yasmin Gorenberg's poignant, factually inspired, well-written. 27-minute film in which an ice-cream-loving Jewish immigrant boy (Grayson Taylor), who lives with his grocery store owning parents (Te'ena Klien and Leo Grinberg) and grandmother (Carole Forman) in St. Louis in 1935, saves nickels to pay for a 10-minute airplane ride and finally learns that his uncles were brutally killed by the anti-Semitic Cossacks in the a Old Country during the war.
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