Hold My Hand

'In 1939 Esther was evacuated from Berlin to London as part of the Kindertransport programme. After meeting her great-granddaughter's boyfriend she has flashbacks to her childhood and the opportunity to fulfil an outstanding promise.'

'Hold My Hand' was the winner of UK Jewish Film's - Pears Film Fund in 2021 and was pitched and produced alongside writer/director Dean Marriott. The film spans multiple timelines and was a huge production challenge to create a 1930's Berlin railway station in the UK (during lockdown) with a minimal budget. The film stars the iconic Harriet Thorpe (Absolutely Fabulous, Brittas Empire) alongside BIFA-nominated British acting legend Eileen Davies (Coronation St, Sightseers). It has gone onto feature at multiple Jewish Film Festivals across the world and continues it's festival run in 2023.

It is a bilingual English/German short narrative fiction inspired by the director's own recollections of visiting his Jewish great-grandmother as a child and the Kindertransport Programme which was in place from 1938-40. It covers themes of loss, the concept of memory and the generation gap in the face of Dementia.


Short Film

Drama

9 mins

Director - Dean Marriott, Writer - Dean Marriott, Director of Photography - Markus Ilschner, Editor - Ed Coltman, Sound Design - Ruanth Chrissley, Production Company - UK Jewish Film & Pears Film Fund, Starring - Harriet Thorpe, Eileen Davies, Clemente Lohr, Emily Albright & Lil Davis