DJFF: Etgar Keret: Based on a true Story

About Say What!: A Geriatric Proposal (short)

At a post-concert reception, a young jazz musician tries to survive aggressive grannies and other terrifying beasts.

FILM ACCOLADES

Colorado Premiere

Winner, Best Film & Best Music (Los Angeles Feedback Festival)

Best Animated Short (New York Jazz Festival)

Audience Choice (First Friday Film Festival)

ABOUT THE FILM

Director: Aaron Weinstein

2016/USA/6 minutes

Short Comedy/Animation

English

About Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story

People from all over the world have come to love Israeli writer Etgar Keret for his surreal short stories and his hilarious live performances. As The Guardian wrote: “Spending time with him is like entering the world of his stories: suddenly, everything seems slightly off-kilter, full of comic potential.” When two young Dutch filmmakers set out to make a film about Etgar Keret’s stories, they knew they had to make use of many different techniques to truly show how his mind works. Through animations of his stories, re-enactments of his anecdotes, peeks behind the scenes, and interviews with family and friends (Jonathan Safran Foer and Ira Glass among them) in Tel Aviv and New York, they try to find out why Keret’s constant storytelling has kept him alive.

ABOUT THE FILM

Director: Stephane Kaas

2017/France, Israel, Netherlands, USA/67 minutes

Documentary/Biography/Animation

English