A family dramedy about identity, religion and fate After suffering a stroke, Bella (80), reveals to her family her life-hidden secret -she’s a Jew… she doesn’t want this to disturb their lives, she just requests “a small favour”; when her time comes, she wantd to be buried as a Jew. Magda, her closest granddaughter,… Read more
A Family comedy Three siblings set out after their late father leaves a four-room apartment to a hooker. Penniless Sela; Ayelet, a teacher and single mother; and Gur, the stingy star of children’s entertainment, are unwilling to forgo the inheritance that they deserve. Three siblings used to fighting with each other for the past 40… Read more
The year is 1996. Naomi, the daughter of an ultra-Orthodox Dayan, Rabbi Hess, manages to convince her father to postpone her wedding and allow her to study at a girls’ seminary in Safed. She shares her subversive dream of becoming the first Orthodox female rabbi only with Debori, the head of her school. Davori, who… Read more
Tel Aviv, 1991. Kirsten, a young German journalist, knocks on the door of Charlotte, a Holocaust survivor, to investigate her promising career as a prima ballerina, which was abruptly cut short during the war. Over the course of one stormy evening, ghosts of the past emerge, along with family secrets and questions of morality and… Read more
A “mikveh” is the ritual bath in which religious Jewish women (from wedding until menopause) immerse once a month, in order to purify themselves from the ‘impure blood’ and be once again permitted (physically) to their husbands. Mikveh is the physical space in which this play unfolds, but it is also the humane space deep… Read more
The Giorns are a mafia family specializing in drug smuggling for the third generation, but they fail to deliver the umpteenth shipment in a row, this time to Macedonia. The client is furious and gives the clan one last chance… At that moment, two actors of the “Fantastic Theater” ring the door and ask for… Read more
“To be or not to be. That is not the question. The question is how to be”. A new patient, Talia Roth, a theatre star in her late forties, arrives at an oncology clinic to begin a series of treatments in order to prolong her life. The encounter with the other women patients at the… Read more
