A young married woman from Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man, who is mourning the death of his estranged father.

A tale of forbidden love partly set in Montreal’s Jewish Orthodox community, Felix and Meira shines through its sensitive tone and its movingly honest depiction of disenchantment, loss, and moral turmoil. This award winner in Toronto is infused with enchanting simplicity yet stirring feeling