Shown: January 8, 2018 at 6pm
Director : Rama Burshtein
Country : Israel
Release Date : 2012
Duration : 90 mins
Language : Hebrew
Subtitles : Yes
WINNER : BEST ACTRESS AT 2012 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
Focussing on life among the Haredi Jewish community in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hadas Yaron stars as Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old girl who is pressured to marry her older sister’s husband following the death of her sister in childbirth. Graceful, complex and beautifully layered, Fill the Void offers a sympathetic portrait of an insulated culture by exploring universal themes. Several critics have compared the female characters to those in Jane Austen’s novels.
“I don’t know when I’ve ever seen a film as eerily perfect in tone and taste as ‘Fill the Void’ … There isn’t a moment when Burshtein goes wrong, goes melodramatic, goes didactic, goes false. Working as a woman of faith in a medium looked on with understandable suspicion and skepticism by those who believe as she does, Rama Burshtein has made a work of art of overwhelming beauty and impact.” (John Podhoretz – Weekly Standard)