Offspring (2019)
A 32-year-old woman from an Israeli Sephardic community is childless but under constant pressure from her relatives demanding offsprings. She and her grandmother accidentally find themselves at the circumcision of a little child, and there someone tells her about a tradition quite strange to the outsiders: if a woman who cannot get pregnant eats the foreskin of a baby, life will take a turn for the better. Israeli director Shirley Sasson-Ezer shows intergenerational relationships that are full of love and are devoid of aggression and yet are still complicated by the insurmountable obstacles of differences in worldviews.
Directors:
Shirly Sasson-Ezer, Dana Keidar-Levin.
Writers:
Dana Keidar-Levin, Shirly Sasson-Ezer.
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Rotem Zissman-Cohen as Ilana |
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Dover Koshashvili as Mohel |
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Hefsigul Usherova-Shmuelova as Grandmother |
| Writing | Dana Keidar-Levin | Screenplay |
| Directing | Shirly Sasson-Ezer | Director |
| Writing | Shirly Sasson-Ezer | Screenplay |
| Directing | Dana Keidar-Levin | Director |