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Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00pm O Cinema South Beach

Israel | 108 minutes | 2022

Barren

Southeast US Premiere

Feigi and Naftali are a young, childless, Hasidic couple living with Naftali’s parents in Tzfat. When Naftali travels to Ukraine over Rosh Hashanah to pray for a child, a charismatic rabbi who claims to have healing powers is invited to stay with the family. Taking advantage of Feigi’s trust and desire for a child, he convinces her to undergo ‘barren treatment,’ with sinister consequences. Beautifully photographed and acted, this graceful and compelling Israeli drama presents the society in which the couple lives as complex and multifaceted, in contrast to the often-used approach that portrays religious life as uniformly repressive.

Director's Bio

Directed by Mordechai Vardi

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Mordechai Vardi is a rabbi who graduated from the Tel Aviv University Department of Film and Television. He was the head of the screenwriting department at the Ma’aleh Film School for 20 years, and has produced and directed several documentaries that deal with how the religious world copes with difficult issues.

Cast and Credits

Director

Mordechai Vardi

Screenwriter

Mordechai Vardi

Cinematographer

Uri Ackerman

Editor

Zohar M. Sela

Cast

Mili Eshet, Yoav Rotman, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov

Film Info

Year

2022

Country

Israel

Run-time

108 minutes

Language

Hebrew with English subtitles
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