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The Youngest

Partner: Gesher VOD

Director: Rahel Elitzur
Filmmaker's profile

In the Jewish ultra-Orthodox world, marriage is by arrangement only. Leah, a young woman just coming of age who works in her widowed mother's store, is ready for love, but her mother seems unwilling to let her go.

Details

Duration: 19min.

Country: Israel

Language: Hebrew

Year: 2020

Genre: Fiction (Drama)

Topic: Human Relationship, Jewish, Love, Religion, Romance, Society, Women

Cast & Crew

Director: Rahel Elitzur

Production company: Racheli Vasserman

Writer: Rachel Elitzur

Cinematographer: Avigail Sperber

Editor: Miryam Adler

Actors: Smadar Kilshinksy , Danielle Gal , Maya Har Tzion

Festivals & Awards

2018

Religion Today Film Festival

Terni Film Festival

Near Nazareth Film Festival Near Nazareth Film Festival Best First-time Filmmaker

2019

Festival du Cinema Israelien de Montreal

Nice Israeli Film Festival

Festival du Cinema Israelien de Paris

Jewish Motifs International Film Festival

Stony Brook Film Festival

Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival

Prague Israeli Film Festival

Girona Film Festival

International Women's Film Festival Florida International Women's Film Festival Florida Best Narrative Short, International Section

2020

Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival

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