Maybe some people are just born unlucky? This documentary film weaves together a diverse collection of different voices from London’s Jewish community to explore the concept of “luck” or “mazel”. From lucky charms and curses to global economics and quantum physics, this humorous and philosophical piece of visual poetry navigates the boundaries between religion and superstition to ask how the invisible hand of mazel has touched us all.

Commissed by The Jewish Film Festival & supported by the Pears Foundation
Co-producted with Pilgrim Films in 2009

Festivals:

UK Jewish Film Festival 2009
London Short Film Festival 2010
SXSW 2010

Director: Christopher Thomas Allen
Producer: Andrew Hinton
Assistant Producer: Alice Ceresole