Festivals & Awards:

• Best Short Documentary Award: AI International Film Festival, Holywood, USA 2025

Best Short Documentary Award at AI International Film Festival 2025: Jury's Statement:

"This film transcends its medium. ''Night of Broken Glass'' is not just an AI project, it’s a living memory, passed down through three generations, and reborn in digital language without losing an ounce of its emotional gravity. The use of AI here is not decorative, it’s devotional. The daughter directs, the grandson speaks, and the father’s voice echoes through black-and-white reconstructions of one of history’s darkest nights. It feels deeply personal and urgently relevant. The parallels between then and now ripple beneath every frame."

Director's Statement:

This film was generated using AI tools under human direction to visually reconstruct the memory of Kristallnacht, based on a real testimony. It is my father's testimony. My father, Gershon Shaked, immigrated to Israel alone in 1939, and lived in a children's refugee village. He didn't know if his parents survived. To overcome the trauma, he escaped to reading books. His parents managed to escape and to come to Israel too. He devoted himself to create a new culture in Israel and became a world famous Hebrew literature and Theater professor, and a very warm and loving father.
My father wrote about the trauma he experienced as a child and my son Eyal is reading it -giving it the historical closer. Dalit Kimor