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FILL THE VOID
Lemale et ha’halal

Rama Burshtein  •  Israel  • ​  2012
90 mins  •   HD  •   M cert 
 ​In Hebrew with English subtitles
​

 Eighteen-year-old Shira must choose a husband in this sensitive drama that provides rare insight into family tradition and personal choice in Tel Aviv’s Hared community.

“Intelligent and moving.” – The Observer
With: Hadas Yaron (Shira), Yiftach Klein (Yochay), Irit Sheleg (Rivka), Chaim Sharir (Aharon), Razia Israeli (Aunt Hanna), Hila Feldman (Frieda), Renana Raz (Esther), Yael Tal (Shifi), Michael David Weigl (Shtreicher), Ido Samuel (Yossi), Neta Moran (Bilha)
Director/Screenplay: Rama Burshtein
Producer: Assaf Amir
Production co: Norma Productions
Photography: Asaf Sudry
Editor: Sharon Elovic

Music: Yitzhak Azulay


REVIEWS

"Set in Tel Aviv in an Orthodox Hassidic family, this film follows 18-year-old Shira’s search for a husband after her older sister dies in childbirth.  Marriage is a central focus in this community and here the concept of ‘a good match’ is especially complicated, with a grief-stricken mother who has more than Shira’s happiness in mind.  Watching Shira negotiate the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and her own burgeoning sentiment is both painful and beautiful – there are no easy choices to be made and the viewer travels back and forth with Shira as she struggles to take ‘the best path’. 

​Writer-director Rama Burshtein investigates the complexities of her own community without judgement: instead we must evaluate for ourselves the strengths and challenges of this closed group and its religious and cultural practices.  Ultimately we can only sympathise with characters who are caught, as we all are, between their wishes and desires and the very particular world they find themselves in.  What does ‘doing what you want’ look like when you are bound tightly in a loving familial context, upon which your happiness depends?"

— Jo Randerson, NZIFF 2013


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