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Fill the Void
Fill the Void
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FILL THE VOID

Lemale et ha'halal

Directed by Rama Burshtein
Israel, 2012
Drama

Synopsis

With her first dramatic feature, writer-director Rama Burshtein has made a compelling, disconcerting view of Israel’s orthodox Hassidic community from the inside, where an 18-year-old girl is pressured to marry her deceased sister’s husband following her death in childbirth.

Synopsis

With her first dramatic feature, writer-director Rama Burshtein has made a compelling, disconcerting view of Israel’s orthodox Hassidic community from the inside, where an 18-year-old girl is pressured to marry her deceased sister’s husband following her death in childbirth.