Simon Konianski

Simon Konianski (2009)

March 15, 2026

Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest’s brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a “nice little Jewish girl” for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father’s last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his “Goy dancer”, his six-years-old son, his father’s body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

Pippa Lee feels dislocated when she and her husband Herb move from Manhattan to a suburban retirement community. He’s older than she, they have two offsprings who are young adults, and the daughter hardly speaks to Pippa. Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting […]

Darkness

Darkness (2009)

March 24, 2022

A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.