MENASHE

By Joshua Z WEINSTEIN

AMERICANA FILM FEST - as FEST

Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2017
Next
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2017
Forum
Stockholm IFF 2017
Discovery
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • YIDDISH
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Joshua Z WEINSTEIN
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/F51D-88B7-25B1-6648-E4A9-5
    • Synopsis
    • Performed entirely in Yiddish, a language not used in cinema for many decades, MENASHE follows a kind, hapless grocery store clerk as he struggles to make
      ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven. In the wake of his wife’s death, tradition prohibits Menashe from raising his son alone, so Rieven’s strict uncle adopts him, leaving Menashe heartbroken. Meanwhile, though Menashe seems to bungle every challenge in his path, his rabbi grants him one special week with Rieven before his wife’s memorial and a chance to prove himself a suitable
      man of faith and fatherhood.