“Starboy is a surprising, engrossing, distinctive, visually stunning and thought-provoking film with outstanding performances from its two young actors. A true original!" Nik Powell, Film Producer

Yehud, 19, a young married Hassidic man raised in a sheltered community, has spent all of his life been on the path traditionally followed by all Hassidic Jews. But when he immerses himself in the deep, dark secrets of the Kabbalah and the study of quantum mechanics, his pious young wife doesn’t understand why there are suddenly so many unorthodox books in their small, cramped Stamford Hill flat. And why is he no longer content with raising their baby son and just happy with the regular study of the Torah? What is he trying to tell her? And what will happen to him – and them?

As Yehud obsessively searches for answers to his many burning mystical questions, increasingly doubting his own identity and the nature of being, their conflict grows, with irreparable and shocking consequences.

Winner: Pears Short Film Fund at UK Jewish Film 2018

Winner: Best LGBTQ Short - Hollyshorts 2019, Los Angeles

2019 Iris Prize Best British Short Nominee

Official Selection:

OUTFEST Los Angeles 2019

Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2019

Sao Paolo International Short Film Festival 2019

The Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, San Diego 2019

UK Jewish Film Festival 2018

CINEQUEST 2020 

Crystal Palace International Film Festival (Nominated, Best Short) 

Oxford International Short Film Festival 2020 

Festival of Tolerance in Zagreb 2020