Goyta
Official Selection at Cannes' Cinéfondation (2007)
16 mins
The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Polish, immigrant women wait to be taken to Hassidic homes to help with the cleaning of their house. In the movie they negotiate the labor at $8 an hour. After scrubbing and scouring for a bit, and after observing a world that is completely foreign to her, Mariola succumbs to the toxic fumes of the cleaning agents and falls and faints. After regaining consciousness, she leaves the house in an angry huff. At the prodding of his sister and father, Yoyli goes out to find her and offer her a ride. She accepts not realizing the differences of their worlds that would place the two young people in a tense and heated situation that is never fully resolved.
Abe Lebovic
Yoyli
Faigy Salomon
Young Hassidic Woman
Suzanne Toren
Mother
David Benger
Hassidic Boy
Osher T. Girshberg
Father
Joanna Jurewicz
Director
Pearl Gluck
Writer
Joanna Jurewicz
Writer
Jacek Dabrowski-Udziela
Producer
Kate Gilroy
Executive Producer
Monika Lenczewska
Producer
Joanna Jurewicz
Editor
Adam Walsh
Assistant Director
Derrick Espino
Sound Editor
Laura Richard
Associate Editor