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Eighth Annual Israeli Film Festival Opening Film – The Women’s Balcony

Date(s)

  • January 18, 2018 | 7:30 pm

A film by Shlomit Nehama / Drama, Comedy / 96 minutes / Hebrew with English subtitles
Sponsored by Weinstein Properties

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.

When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and the rabbi in shock, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic young Rabbi David appears to be a savior after the accident, but slowly starts pushing his fundamentalist ways and tries to take control. This tests the women’s friendships and creates an almost Lysistrata-type rift between the community’s women and men.

The Eighth Annual Israeli Film Festival will take place January 18-27 at the Weinstein JCC.

Costs are as follows: $7 per film or $25 for all four films for Weinstein JCC members; $10 per film or $35 for all four films for non-members.