Performance

Shiva Baby

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Emma Seligman’s *Shiva Baby* follows Danielle, a young Jewish woman in New York, boxed in by family expectations during a shiva where an ex and a clandestine older lover collide in the same room. The film treats ritual and social etiquette as pressure systems, with humor that tightens into something like panic. It played the city’s festival circuit on its way to wider release, registering as part of a new wave of New York–set, Jewish indie comedy. Now at City Winery NYC in the Meatpacking District, the brunch screening includes a Q&A with co-star Danny Deferrari.