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- A Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life.
- After 15 years of self-imposed exile, Menahem gets back to his ultra-orthodox home town of Bnei Brak, where he wants to face the traumatic childhood experiences of long-lasting sexual abuse within the Khasidic community.
- Mendy is a young man struggling to keep his mind focused on rabbinical school. His teacher tells him to rid himself of desires by visiting a prostitute in Tel Aviv. Mendy falls head over heels in love with a Russian harlot named Sasha.
- A 'Driver' in the oltra orthodox community takes his daughter on his nightly journey, exposing her to the more questionable members of this pious society in the dark alleys of Bnei Barak they each find, even if for a short moment, their lost childhoods
- A rare look into life in Bnei Brak, Israel amid the corona virus outbreak, which completely engulfed and paralyzed this ultra-Orthodox city, is the focus of a new feature documentary called, By the Grace of Heaven. Less than 20 minutes from Tel Aviv, the city of Bnei Brak is Israel's ninth largest, with a quarter-million residents and, in effect, the capital of Israel's ultra-Orthodox community. When the virus erupted in Bnei Brak in April 2020, a complete closure was imposed on the city. The mayor, Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein, went into solitary confinement after his wife was infected with corona virus, while setting up a dedicated emergency headquarters under the command of IDF Retired Major General, Roni Numa, who, together with other reserve officers, took control over the blockaded city. All of this happened just days before Passover, requiring the ultra-Orthodox community - with its diverse Hasidic, Lithuanian, and Sephardic sects - to immediately adapt to the realities of holiday life, in the shadow of corona virus and the subsequent city closure, isolation, and curfew. Suddenly, as only in Israel can happen, the ultra-Orthodox religious community joined forces with soldiers and army commanders to meet the challenges imposed upon them.
- God's voice speaks to A. Having left religion, his home and his family, A. reflects on how good a person he is.
- From the outside, the Fire station of the City of 'Bnei-Brak' seems like a huge concrete lump, secular and foreign in the middle of this ultra-orthodox city. From the inside, it seems like the private playground of the firefighters, who have nothing to do on their daily routine, but wait. At a closer look one discovers that the waiting is accompanied by constant unrest, as the station's alarm, signaling yet another life-threatening event, will inevitably sound.
- "If I saw someone else screaming like my mother, I would be sure that person was mentally disturbed, if it wasn't 100% authentic..." This is what Israel Meir says about his mother, Rabbanit Lea Kook, whose discourse, according to him, stems from absolutely authentic belief. The ultra orthodox community in general & its women in particular are extremely wary of media exposure. The film therefore provides a rare look into the lives of ultra orthodox women, their activities & their grasp of their identities. Tikkun portrays the phenomenon of the Rabbanit (the wife of a Rabbi) of Tiberius, Leah Kook, an orthodox leader followed by many Israeli women. This film is a vivid picture of the routines and customs of life in an ultra-orthodox household and introduces a very charismatic,yet highly controversial main character. Rabbanit Kook, a staunch believer in a prophecy the world refuses to hear, such an extrovert enthusiast that the filmmaker documented her intensively for two entire years. As the maker of the film disguised herself and became one of the members of the house she could explore the backyard of the scene. The surprising cooperation demonstrated by the rabbanit in making this film, and her agreement to such intimate exposure of her physical & spiritual world for two years were a form of "Tikkun" for her. By watching the Rabanit from almost no distance at all, one could reach a conclusion to the controversial attitude of the Israeli society towards Lea Kook: is she genuine or a fraud?
- Michael Frankel is a 67 year old Israeli translator of French literature, looking for a partner to share the rest of his life with.