section short films: Nosh Nosh

How To Make Challah

  • Sarah Rosen
  • US
  • 2023
  • 12

A touching short film about tradition and memory: in 1975, Jane filmed her 97-year-old grandmother baking challah. In 2022, she tries it herself – for the first time. A moving portrait of what we pass on and what remains

Part of the short film programme NOSH NOSH (for Tickets click here).

Credits

original title How To Make Challah

international title How To Make Challah

german title How To Make Challah

JFBB section short films: Nosh Nosh

  • director Sarah Rosen

country/countries US

year 2023

duration 12

Portrait of Sarah Rosen

Sarah Rosen

BIO Sarah Rosen is a writer and director. She was awarded the 2022-23 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Screenwriting. She graduated with a B.A. in film from Yale University and studied film at FAMU in Prague. Other awards and fellowships: 2024 Yaddo residency in filmmaking, 2023 Cine Qua Non Independent Film Lab, la Porte Peinte Artist Residency, Dorot Fellowship, Gotham’s Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film. Her latest short film screened at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Hollyshorts, SENE Film Festival (award winner), Belgrade’s Fine Line Film Festival (award winner), New York Shorts, and more. She has developed TV series with production companies in Tel Aviv and London. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Jewish Currents, the Jerusalem Post, and more.