Mazel Tov

[Plays Nov. 11-16 during the Austin Jewish Film Festival; for information, log on to https://austinjff.org/event-list/.] After his cynical, drunk mother (Maayan Selektar) gives a depressing speech at his bar Mitzvah party in Eli Zuzovsky's realistic, award-winning, well-acted, 25-minute film, an unhappy, talented, 13-year-old Israeli boy (Peter Knoller), who is struggling with his sexuality, trades clothing with a girl and surprises everyone when he goes on stage to sing at his celebration at a banquet hall during an air raid.
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