Keshet International has boarded “The Women’s Balcony,” a warm drama series based on the hit Israeli film starring Tshai Halevi (“Line in the Sand”).
“The Women’s Balcony” recently bowed on commercial TV channel Keshet 12 and garnered strong ratings, taking a 26.1% market share and becoming the second highest rated drama in Israel since 2015, after “Line in the Sand.”
The plot unfolds in a close-knit neighborhood of Jersualem which is under threat as ultra-orthodox sects try to impose their rules and restrict women in public spaces. Meanwhile, five women at the heart of the community each find themselves at a personal crossroads, as health, finance, political principles and grief mark the start of the next chapters of their lives. Yafit Asulin and Orna Banai, Assaf Ben-Shimon star in the series, along with Halevi.
The show is produced by Pie Films, whose credits include the original movie and their current...
“The Women’s Balcony” recently bowed on commercial TV channel Keshet 12 and garnered strong ratings, taking a 26.1% market share and becoming the second highest rated drama in Israel since 2015, after “Line in the Sand.”
The plot unfolds in a close-knit neighborhood of Jersualem which is under threat as ultra-orthodox sects try to impose their rules and restrict women in public spaces. Meanwhile, five women at the heart of the community each find themselves at a personal crossroads, as health, finance, political principles and grief mark the start of the next chapters of their lives. Yafit Asulin and Orna Banai, Assaf Ben-Shimon star in the series, along with Halevi.
The show is produced by Pie Films, whose credits include the original movie and their current...
- 5/12/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Wonder Woman (superhero action-adventure; Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright; rated PG-13) The Big Sick (romantic comedy; Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan; rated R) The Hero (comedy-drama; Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon; rated R) Past Life (action-drama; Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger; not rated) The Women’s Balcony (comedy-drama; Orna Banai, Itzik Cohen; not rated) Killing Gunther (action-comedy; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cobie Smulder; pretheatrical title available 9/22; rated...
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- 9/19/2017
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
There’s more to The Women’s Balcony than the American marketing machine has thus far presented. Billed as a feel good comedy of communal spirit — and correctly so — there are much weightier issues at play. This isn’t merely a farcical war between a synagogue’s female congregation and a new rabbi placing their demands behind his own. It’s also a keenly intuitive account of fundamentalist extremism in a forum we aren’t used to seeing. Too often Hollywood takes this concept and projects it upon terrorists killing in God’s name, but evidence of it also exists closer to home. No religion is immune to having its “rules” bent for specific purposes. Zealotry is cultivated only when the devout forget their humanity to seek God-like authority for themselves.
That’s hyperbolic insofar as my goal to describe this film’s success, but I believe it’s what...
That’s hyperbolic insofar as my goal to describe this film’s success, but I believe it’s what...
- 5/24/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The Women’S Balcony (Ismach Hatani) Menemsha Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Emil Ben-Shimon Written by: Shlomit Nehama Cast: Orna Banai, Itzik Cohen, Einat Sarouf, Igal Naor, Evelin Hagoel, Aviv Alush Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/3/17 Opens: May 26 at New York’s Quad Cinema and Lincoln Plaza When a non-Jewish friend […]
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The post The Women’s Balcony Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 5/4/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the North American rights to the drama “Green Is Gold,” written and directed by Ryon Baxter and starring Jimmy Baxter, Ryon Baxter and David Fine. The film recently had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival over the summer, where it won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature.
The film follows “a thirteen-year-old boy [who] is forced to live with his estranged brother after their father is sent to prison. Their relationship is soon tested when the older brother’s occupation as a marijuana dealer infringes on his ability not only to raise his brother, but to even take care of himself. However, through constant tribulation, they discover...
– Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the North American rights to the drama “Green Is Gold,” written and directed by Ryon Baxter and starring Jimmy Baxter, Ryon Baxter and David Fine. The film recently had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival over the summer, where it won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature.
The film follows “a thirteen-year-old boy [who] is forced to live with his estranged brother after their father is sent to prison. Their relationship is soon tested when the older brother’s occupation as a marijuana dealer infringes on his ability not only to raise his brother, but to even take care of himself. However, through constant tribulation, they discover...
- 9/30/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Menemsha Films has acquired North American rights to Israeli film The Women’s Balcony, while Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Son Of Joseph.
The Women’s Balcony recently received its world premiere in Toronto and stars Evelyn Hagoel, Igal Naor, Orna Banai, Einat Saruf, Itzik Cohen and Aviv Alush.
Pie Films and United King produced the story about female members of an Orthodox community who rally together after the collapse of the women’s balcony in a Jerusalem synagogue.
Emil Ben Shimon directed from a screenplay by Shlomit Nehama in their feature debut.
Menemsha Films brokered the deal with Pie Films and plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2017.
The film will open in Israel next week as the centrepiece film release for the Jewish holidays
“We just fell in love with this film from its first screening in Toronto,” said Menemsha’s Neil Friedman. “We are confident...
The Women’s Balcony recently received its world premiere in Toronto and stars Evelyn Hagoel, Igal Naor, Orna Banai, Einat Saruf, Itzik Cohen and Aviv Alush.
Pie Films and United King produced the story about female members of an Orthodox community who rally together after the collapse of the women’s balcony in a Jerusalem synagogue.
Emil Ben Shimon directed from a screenplay by Shlomit Nehama in their feature debut.
Menemsha Films brokered the deal with Pie Films and plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2017.
The film will open in Israel next week as the centrepiece film release for the Jewish holidays
“We just fell in love with this film from its first screening in Toronto,” said Menemsha’s Neil Friedman. “We are confident...
- 9/26/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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