Film Details

Winner of the award for Best Israeli Feature at the 2015 Jerusalem Film Festival, this bold, shocking, enigmatic drama (shot in striking b&w) tells of a devout, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student who becomes a dramatically different person after a near-death experience. He renounces religious studies and his community’s conservative rules and starts exploring some of the taboo realms of the world at large. Meanwhile his father (who saved his life) worries that perhaps he shouldn’t have interfered with God’s plan… “Haunting…Hallucinatory…A feverish satire of the conflict between the secular and the sacred in modern Israel.” –The NY Times. “Not a movie that can be easily forgotten.” –The Hollywood Reporter. Yiddish and Hebrew with subtitles. DCP. 120 min. www.kinolorber.com