https://vimeo.com/335870613
Original Name: M
English Name: M
Year: 2018
Run Time: 106'
Language: Yiddish
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: France
Director: Yolande Zauberman
Producer: Charles Gillibert, Fabrice Bigio, Yolande Zauberman
Cast: Menachem Lang
Screenplay: Yolande Zauberman
Editor: Raphaël Lefèvre
Sound Designer: Selim Nassib
Production Company: Cg Cinemas, Phobics
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Festivals:
Locarno FF 2019
IDF Amsterdam 2019
IndieLisboa IIFF 2019
Hamburg FF 2019
Selected Filmography:
2011 Would You Have Sex With An Arab?
2005 Un Juif À La Mer
1993 I Ivan, You Abraham
1990 Caste Criminelle
1988 Classified People
Director’s Biography:
Yolande is one of the most exceptional voices of French documentary cinema. In 1987, she made her first documentary on apartheid in South Africa, Classified People, which won the Grand Prix at the Paris Festival. Her second film, Caste Criminelle (1989), was selected at the Cannes. Three years later, she directed her first fiction with I Ivan, You Abraham, which won the Youth Prize at the Cannes. In 2011, her film Would You Have Sex With An Arab?, presented at the Venice FF.
Synopsis: Suburbs of Tel Aviv. Bnei Brak, world capital of the Haredim, the ultra Orthodox Jews. When he was a kid, Menahem Lang was known for his kindness, his commitment to Talmud school and especially his golden voice, which made him a renowned performer of liturgical chants. But he was hiding a secret: for years, he was raped by members of the community that worshipped him. After 10 years, Menahem returns to the scene of the crime. It is also a return to the places he loved, a path of initiation sprinkled with incredible encounters, recovered rituals... a reconciliation.