In Association with: Artemis Rising Foundation, Impact Partners., Wavelength Productions; Funding Support provided by: Sundance Catalyst.
International festival run, including: Hot Docs (World Premiere), DOC NYC, Film at Lincoln Center: New York Jewish Film Festival, Doc Edge, Special Screening: Castro Theatre (San Francisco Jewish Film Festival).
PRESS:
"An emotionally fecund, funny and deeply resonant work ... honest and revealing but not in an icky solipsistic way. It's not hard to imagine how (editor) David Cohen might have won the right to a co-director credit after hours of pouring over what must have been a staggering amount of material.
Tidy, densely structured ... Helfand and Cohen braid together a doughy challah of past and present. As a meditation on bereavement, parenting and the burden and blessing of inheritances, LOVE & STUFF is about as universally accessible as it gets."
- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Co-directed by David Cohen and smartly edited by him and Marina Katz, the film never feels beholden to the past... instead conveying how life goes on. LOVE & STUFF gradually evolves into a celebration of the breadcrumbs we leave behind for future generations, illustrating how the meaning of history can sometimes only make itself known at unexpected moments."
-THE MOVEABLE FEST
"Deeply personal, darkly funny...reflects the universal power of love and family."
-BROADWAY WORLD
"A moving memoir about motherhood."
- NPR
"Hauntingly beautiful... at times one forgets her mother is dead."
- SET THE BAR
"Incredibly emotional."
-CANDID CINEMA
"A highly intimate and unshakably universal story...a chronicle of the long-lingering aftershocks left by life-changing events, and the way they can shape decades of decisions. A portrait of two mother-daughter relationships -- that pack a punch."
- ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS