Directed by
Shawn Snyder
Produced by
Alessandro Nivola
Emily Mortimer
Scott Lochmus
Josh Crook
Ron Perlman
Written by
Shawn Snyder
Jason Begue
Featuring
Géza Röhrig
Matthew Broderick
Sponsored by

2018 | English | USA
Shmuel (Geza Rohrig, last seen at HIFF with 2015’s SON OF SAUL), a Hasidic cantor living in upstate New York, is unable to cope with the untimely death of his wife. Struggling to find religious solace in the face of tremendous grief and plagued by nightmares about his wife’s decaying body, Shmuel looks to Albert (Matthew Broderick), a community college biology professor, to teach him more about the decomposition process facing her. In director Shawn Snyder’s darkly comic first feature, the two form an unlikely bond via clandestine biological experiments, despite the blasphemous consequences.