JURY AWARD WINNER!

Best Director - Emma Seligman

Q&A with director Emma Seligman

SHIVA BABY follows Danielle, a bisexual Jewish 20-something grappling with the ever stressful question of who she is, as she navigates a family funeral filled with everyone she doesn’t want to see. With a sharp wit that is perfectly suited to the Jewish setting from which it comes, this film takes a nightmarish scenario and injects it with a heartfelt wisdom and a sense of humour that could only come from running into your sugar daddy while sandwiched between your overbearing parents and a bagel buffet. Emma Seligman’s impressive feature debut stars the up-and-coming Rachel Sennott and the always hilarious Fred Melamed (IN A WORLD…). —Vanessa Meyer