Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of her Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. She is about to be married off to a young man of the same age. It is a dream-come-true and Shira feels prepared. When her 28-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, the family postpones Shira’s wedding. Everything changes when Yochay, the late Esther‘s husband, is matched to a widow from Belgium. The mother of the girls finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild and proposes a match between Shira and Yochay. Shira will have to choose between her heart‘s wish and her family duty.
Lemale et Há’Halal
2012
10 years
87 min.
Fiction
Colorido
Rama Burshtein
Rama Burshtein
Asaf Sudry
Sharon Elovic
Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg
Assaf Amir
Norma Productions
Yitzhak Azulay
The Match Factory
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