2019 Film Festival

film synopsis
Yossi Madmoni (A Place in Heaven, PSIFF 2014) returns with another film that has at its center parent-child relationships. Co-directed with and written by his longtime cinematographer Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov, it examines a subject that Yacov knows well: a secular man becoming religious. The protagonist, Menachem, used to be the front man for a popular rock band. Now living as an Orthodox Jew, he cannot fulfill one of the most important commandments of a Hassid because he is unable to rejoice. The death of his wife weighs heavily on him, as does his young daughter's cancer diagnosis. The only way he can raise the funds to pay for the girl's treatment is to reunite his musical comrades for a final tour. As Menachem partially returns to the creative world that once gave him so much pleasure, he must find a way to balance his past with his new life and find redemption in the contradiction.