My Father My Lord (2007)

Recommended

Israel

Feature Film

Original Title: חופשת קיץ‎

Writer/ Director: David Volach

Cinematographer: Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov

Composers: Michael Hope, Martin Tillman

Cast: Assi Dayan, Ilan Griff, Sharon Hacohen-Bar

Volach’s affecting, sensual, and very promising debut contrasts the innate curiosity and pragmatism of a nine-year-old boy with the irrational, unnatural religious piety of his father, a contrast that eventually leads to tragedy, in this low budget film, set amongst the ultra-orthodox Haredi community of Jerusalem. Iain.Stott