• Run time: 50 minutes
• Country of origin: Israel

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How does it feel to have been pregnant or breastfeeding for 25 of 26 years of your married life?
This and other questions are posed openly and directly for the first time in this film, and they expose the consequences of the commandment "Be fruitful and multiply" the mother of all Mitzvot, upon the ultra-orthodox Jewish woman. The center of her life is pregnancy, childbirth and constant nursing. She doesn't have the freedom to determine the course of her life; from stand point, she serves God via the womb. The film follows the stories of 4 Ultra Orthodoxi women. Yentel from Mea Shearim-Jerusalem is the key figure in the film, and the personal stories of the 3 other women are interwoven into her story. Yentel's is the cry of her oppressed friends. She is the dramatic figure in the film who turns from the obedient wife who internalizes the strict social code into an independent woman who rebels against social conventions. This is a story about oppression in Ultra Orthodox society which ignores women's spirituality, emotional needs and inner world. The woman is a mirror of ultra orthodox society, a traditional patriarchal society that enslaves its women socially and ideologically, leaving them unable to develop inner freedom and negating their right to critical thought.(more)

• Director:

  Shosh Shlam

• Writer(s):

  Shosh Shlam

• Producer(s):

  Shosh Shlam and Marek Rozenbaum

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  Crew:
  Editor - Tor Ben Mayor, Music - Shem Tov Levy

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