Christopher Thomas Allen’s short film Schlimazeltov! explores the concept of luck in religious and secular life:

Mazel, or luck, can change fortunes in an instant: it is evasive, unreliable, and yet also indispensable. While some deride it as superstition, others consider it a science. In … Schlimazeltov!, the existence of mazel remains a subject of constant debate for Jewish people in London, among them the comedian and Steve Coogan collaborator David Schneider, the economist Ronny Razin, and Rabbi Harvey Belovski. This humorous and philosophical documentary poetically explores the concept of luck, not only questioning its existence, but asking what role it plays in a modern secular society. As science works to explain the unexplained, searching for order in the seemingly random, mazel pushes back, its endurance as a belief maintaining a space for mystery in the modern world.