Oct

16 2025

Screening of SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022)

5:15PM - 7:15PM  

Film screening: SHTTL

Join us for a screening of the award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), on October 16, 5:15 pm, at the Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801).
 
SHTTL portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town. In one unflinching shot, SHTTL presents a day in the life of a shtetl before it disappears in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The production fully reconstructed a traditional shtetl outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum.

With introductory remarks by Stefan Djordjevic, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department.

Snacks will be provided.

Contact: Anastasiia Strakhova (Associate Director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, [email protected])