Directed by Adam Baroukh
Director Adam Baroukh makes you beam with pride—and cringe with discomfort at the same time—in this dead-on short comedy about the insular family ties of a typical Iraqi-Jewish community.
Adam Baroukh
After spending his formative years working as a photographer and self-shooting short documentaries, in 2011 Adam co-founded Superplex Pictures as a platform from which to write, produce and direct his own work. Through Superplex he has directed hundreds of commercial films for some of the world’s biggest brands and a number of award-winning short dramas.
Adam works both in visual art and cinematic traditions. In 2015 he was funded by the British Arts Council to create the performance film The Silent Wild at the Bronte Parsonage, and The Brush and the Sword — an audio-visual installation for the Shangri-La at the Shard. The same year, he produced his first written film Just Desserts, which played at numerous BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals internationally, featured at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival, won the Discovery Award at London Comedy Festival and Best Comedy at Isle of Man film festival.
In 2016 his directorial debut ‘Kitty’s Fortune’, a successfully crowd-funded short drama based on the life of Holocaust-survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon, premiered at the London Short Film Festival, UK Jewish Film Festival, and London Lift-Off Festival. It was nominated for ‘Best Fiction’ at this Plymouth Film Festival 2017 and picked up a short film award at the Polish International Film Festival 2017.
Adam has recently completed his first written and directed project The Outer Circle — Winner of the 2017 Pears Short Film Fund. He is working on his next projects through the Columbia University Writing and Directing MFA.