When a woman living in an apartment building discovers that her neighbor is a skilled assassin, she becomes unwittingly entangled in a dangerous plot involving sex trafficking and the Russian mafia. As she tries to navigate the perilous situation, she must confront her own fears and make difficult choices to survive.
Kadosh tells the story of two sisters in an Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, struggling with the constraints and expectations of their faith. While one sister grapples with the pressures of an arranged marriage and her inability to conceive, the other finds herself torn between her love for her husband and her longing for a different life. As they navigate the complexities of tradition and desire, both women are forced to confront the limitations placed on them by their patriarchal society.
Ariela, a traditional Jew, meets Ivan, a young man who is not Jewish with whom she begins a secret relationship despite her family beliefs.
In an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, Bati has a seemingly perfect life. She is happily married to Lazer and the young couple have three children. But their world starts to crumble when Lazer is blackmailed and Bati discovers his secret affair with his male study partner. Desperate to protect her family and keep the man she loves, she supports Lazer as he attempts to “cure” his homosexuality, whilst uncovering her true desires.
In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces herself into an endless ritual of cleaning, while attempting to silence the whispering inner obsessional thoughts that are detailing every inch of her relentless guilt, over and over again. To make matters worse, Tamar's only friend, Rachel, lures her into sinful mischief: peeping into the Mikveh (bath house), turning a light on during the Sabbath. The girls even dare to secretly bathe at the Mikveh when Tamar gets her first period. Will Tamar succumb to her fears? A dark and unflinching portrayal of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the inner turmoil of an adolescent girl.
Racheli, a young Orthodox woman, struggles with her community's strict expectations and cultural practices after feeling oppressed and humiliated during her monthly immersion in the Mikveh.
The film creates a daring first exposure on the way parents, rabbis, teachers, pedagogues and therapists within the Orthodox Hasidic Jewish Community educating their male children from infancy to adolescence, to avoid spilling their sperm. They target them to keep their seed only after marriage with a female for the purpose of fertilization. "Sacred Sperm" penetrates into one of the most suppressed hidden issues in the Orthodox Hasidic Jewish Community - a Taboo. Throughout the film we follow the emotional and theological struggle of the director who is trying to find a proper way as a father to explain his teenager son logically why he should keep this major Mitzvah (commandment) which perceived by many as unreasonable and seems impossible to fulfill.
Peek into the Orthodox Jewish ritual "mikvah" about the family purification bath after menstruating.
No More results found.