After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust and transforms it into a painful, blunt, and funny dissection of the film and his life. Please be advised that this film deals with themes of trauma and suicide.

Demon Box

A director transforms his short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust into a painful, blunt, and funny dissection of the film and his life.

Festival director Neal Schindler talked with Demon Box filmmaker Sean Wainsteim about the messiness of being third-generation Holocaust survivors, how he crafted the film's darkly humorous approach to generational trauma, and what making Demon Box helped him unpack, psychologically speaking.

Q&A with "Demon Box" director Sean Wainsteim

Festival director Neal Schindler talked with "Demon Box" filmmaker Sean Wainsteim about the film's darkly humorous approach to generational trauma.

"Demon Box" and Q&A with director Sean Wainsteim

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