Fill the Void

Director: Rama Burshtein
Writer: Rama Burshtein
Cast: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir, Razia Israely, Hila Feldman, Renana Raz, Yael Tal, Michael David Weigl, Ido Samuel, Neta Moran, Melech Thal
Language: Hebrew
Theatrical Release Date: Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival

Synopsis: On the verge of her marriage, a young Orthodox Hassidic girl and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth — and when her sister's husband is pressed to remarry and her mother makes a startling proposition, she is forced to choose between her obedience to her family and her heart's desire. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]

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Fill the Void Written and Directed by Rama Burshtein Gets Picked Up by Sony Pictures Classics

The team at Sony PIctures Classics has been very busy since Toronto and they added another women directed film Fill the Void written and directed by Rama Burshtein to their list of acquisitions. The film will be Israel's submission to the Academy Award for best foreign film having won seve...
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Indiewire News

Sony Classics Grabs Rama Burshtein's 'Fill the Void' Ahead of Its NYFF Screening

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to writer-director Rama Burshtein’s “Fill the Void,” which will screen at the New York Film Festival Tuesday, Oct. 9. The drama first played at the Venice and Toronto film festivals in September.
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Criticwire Reviews

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Indiewire Reviews

TIFF Capsule Review: 'Fill the Void'

In the ultra-orthodox world of Jerusalem, Shira is 18 and plays the accordion in a kindergarten, and her family wants her to marry. She and her mother have their eyes on a handsome young man, but things get complicated when her older sister, Esther, dies in childbirth, and Esther’s husband, solemn, bearded Yochay, the father of a new baby, becomes the next eligible man. Director Rama Burshtein, the first woman from a Hasidic background to make a feature film, views Shira’s predicament from inside a religious community. Unlike the exposures of abuse and oppression that can be found in recent documentaries about women forced...
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