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Oct 18, 2012 · Fill the Void. When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.
Fill the Void (Hebrew: למלא את החלל - lemale et ha'ḥalal) is a 2012 Israeli drama film written and directed by Rama Burshtein. It focuses on life among the Haredi Jewish community in Tel Aviv, Israel.
On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium.
Jun 13, 2013 · But "Fill the Void," an award-winning Israeli drama about a naive 18-year-old girl in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic community who dreams of finding the perfect match in an arranged marriage, capitalizes on its intentionally cloistered atmosphere.
May 24, 2013 · After a young Hasidic woman dies in childbirth, her 18-year-old sister (Hadas Yaron) is asked to cancel her upcoming marriage to a promising young man and marry her widowed brother-in-law...
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A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute. — Sundance Film Festival.
Shira (Hadas Yaron), a devout 18-year-old Israeli, has come of age and is considering marriage, having met her first serious suitor Yossi (Ido Samuel).
May 23, 2013 · Fill The Void. Director: Rama Burshtein; Genre: Drama; Running Time: 90 minutes; Rated PG for mild thematic elements and brief smoking. With: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein. In Hebrew with...
1h 30m. Synopsis. A young Orthodox Hassidic girl, Shira, and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth, just when Shira is about to be married. When her sister's husband is pressured to remarry, Shira's mother makes a shocking proposal, forcing the young woman to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty.
May 3, 2013 · A new film by Rama Burshtein, an Orthodox Jewish director in Israel, centers on a young woman facing an agonizing choice after her sister dies in childbirth.
