Menashe

Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. Shot entirely in Yiddish, the film explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood. A warm-hearted and impressively authentic feature film debut by documentary filmmaker Joshua Weinstein about a universal conflict in the midst of a segregated community. He spent two years filming it with real Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) in Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York - the largest Hasidic community outside of Israel. For his courage he is celebrated worldwide at festivals and in the press.

Keywords

  • family
  • Gender
  • mindjazz pictures
  • religion
  • Storyline: Sons

Actors

  • Menashe Lustig
  • Ruben Niborski
  • Yoel Weisshaus
  • Meyer Schwartz
  • Yoel Falkowitz

Director

  • Joshua Z. Weinstein

Drama


1h 23min


6 FSK

HE


DE

United States of America
2017
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. Shot entirely in Yiddish, the film explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.

Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. Shot entirely in Yiddish, the film explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.


A warm-hearted and impressively authentic feature film debut by documentary filmmaker Joshua Weinstein about a universal conflict in the midst of a segregated community.


He spent two years filming it with real Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) in Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York - the largest Hasidic community outside of Israel.


For his courage he is celebrated worldwide at festivals and in the press.

Festivals

Cast & Crew