“The Women’s Balcony has its cake and eats it too. It is funny and profound.” (RogerEbert.com)

This delightful feature debut from Emil Ben-Shimon demonstrates the importance of community, values, and tradition, and the power of women to hold it all together. A bar mitzvah morning begins auspiciously, with excited guests in their Sabbath best making their way through Jerusalem’s streets. But after the women’s balcony in their Orthodox synagogue collapses, the congregation falls into crisis. Cue the entrance of young, charismatic Rabbi David. At first he seems to be the savior they need, but then he begins to push his fundamentalist ways—and it’s up to the women to do what they can to set things right. The number one box office hit in Israel in 2016!