Daniel, an arrogant, restless young Londoner is bored with his meaningless life. He seeks sympathy from his old Jewish grandmother, who sends him on a mission to Europe to find the grave of her father who disappeared during World War II.
Cinematography
Europe shot like a fever dream — beautiful, alien, indifferent to one boy's grief.
Direction
Roboh treats the Holocaust's shadow with queasy intimacy, never exploitation.
Director
Caroline Roboh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Asier Newman had almost no prior acting experience; Caroline Roboh cast him after a chance meeting in London. His raw uncertainty became the film's accidental superpower.
Shem baffled festival audiences in 2004 — too gay for Jewish film circuits, too Jewish for queer programmers. It fell between worlds and vanished for nearly two decades.
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