WINNER OF 2021 festival jury award: best student short film

In his online search for bookbinding materials, a middle-aged Hasidic bookbinder stumbles across a craigslist ad offering 'binding lessons for submissive women.' He responds to it, becoming entangled in an emotionally intense BDSM relationship with a stranger on the internet.

Through themes of repressed feelings and strict tradition, filmmaker Anika Benkov has crafted a riotous short film that subverts your expectations with a comedic LGBTQ2+ twist.