Slamdance Premiere: 02.12
ISAAC is a film about tension. It’s a theme that grabs you and doesn’t let go, from tensions rising between characters to the tension created in my dorm room as I watched. It bubbles slowly like a boiling pot, and when it boils over, it burns like hell.
Everything in ISAAC centers around one true event: the murder of a Jewish man, Isaac, in the Lietukis Garge massacre in 1941, German-occupied Lithuania. The Nazis have wiped out nearly all Lithuanian Jews, but not without help several thousand Lithuanians assist. This massacre in particular was the product of Nazi-allied Lithuanians.