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BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

This powerful documentary explores the choices that ultra-orthodox women have to make amid traditional expectations of motherhood. On the one side, we see women who spend most of their lives either pregnant or nursing, focusing on two women who revel in their role as head of their large families. On the other side, we meet two ultra-orthodox women who decided to limit their family size. Yentl, who appears in the film without her husband’s knowledge, voices concern that the pressure to produce large families causes many of these perpetually-pregnant women to a secret life of unhappiness

Director: Shosh Shlam
Israel, 2005
Hebrew with English subtitles
Color
Length: 52 Min.

Shown with Shabbos Mother

SHABBOS MOTHER

Three sisters from a religious family—an unmarried carreer minded sister who has abandoned her traditional roots, a religious middle-class woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, fearful of givinf birth and the film’s heroine, who is struggling to conceive a child—gather at their widowed mother’s house for the Jewish Sabbath. Their intense Sabbath together opens old wounds and forces each of the women to confront issues of womanhood and motherhood.