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EYES WIDE OPEN | Einaym Pkuhot

Saturday, March 20, 9:15 PM at

About the Film

The highly controversial topic of homosexuality in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community is examined in EYES WIDE OPEN when a butcher and married father falls in love with a seductive younger man. Aaron (Zohar Strauss) runs a kosher butcher shop and lives a quiet, orderly life with his wife and four sons. With the arrival of Ezri (Israeli heartthrob Ran Danker), life is disrupted by awakening, dormant feelings. When a next-door neighbor strays from righteousness, Aaron is forced to join the rabbi in making threats that could soon be redirected at him if he continues his passionate affair. He must choose between personal freedom and religious responsibility, in a world where the laws of free will and desire do not necessarily reign supreme. Plays with: Lost Paradise

The camera of first-time feature director Haim Tabakman breathes down the backs of his subjects, creating a tightly wound universe of quiet desperation and a sharp, heartbreaking investigation of his own religion. Warning: mature sexual content.

PRINT SOURCE: Jessica Rosner

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Sponsors

COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Bashert: The GLBT Initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Congregation Tikvah Chadashah, Jewish Family Service & Pride Foundation. Co-sponsors: Three Dollar Bill Cinema and Kolenu.