Avigail

‘How do you feel about intimate relations? Seak freely, don’t hold back.’ · ‘I think it’s the highest connection between two souls.’ Benny’s hair is as red as the fur of her devout father’s treasured calf – which he believes will ing salvation. But the 17-year-old feels as lonely and traed as the calf in its enclosure. Benny’s mother died giving birth to her, and she grew u alone with her caring yet atriarchal father. He is a figure of authority and a mentor for many eole in their Jerusalem religious community. Benny becomes increasingly critical of her father’s religious, utoian nationalism and then there’s Yael, the self-confident young woman who has set off a whirlwind of longing and emotions in her. Avigayil Koevary owerfully ortrays the defiance and desire of a young woman in Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s debut feature film.