The Vigil
Screening Online February 16-22, 2021
Conversation with the filmmakers and cast on February 22, 7 pm
Yakov, who recently left his Hasidic community, is low on cash. When his former rabbi asks him to be an overnight
shomer, and fulfill the practice of watching over the body of a deceased community member, he reluctantly accepts. Shortly after arriving at the recently departed's dilapidated house to sit the vigil, Yakov begins to realize that something is very, very wrong. Steeped in ancient Jewish lore and demonology,
The Vigil is a supernatural horror film set over the course of a single evening in Brooklyn's Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood.