Fill The Void
Rama Burshtein, 2012, 90 min, Hebrew, Drama
Official Competition
Venice Film Festival, 2012
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Venice Film Festival, 2012
Best Cinematographer
European Academy Awards, 2013
Nomination: Best First Feature & Best First Screenplay
Independent Spirit Awards, 2013
Best Film, Screenplay, Director, Cinematography, Lead Actress, Supporting Actress & Make Up Artist
Israeli Academy Awards, 2012
FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2013
SYNOPSIS
Fill the Void, Debut feature film of the Hasidic female director Rama Burshtein, is a love story that takes place in the Jewish Hassidic world.
Fill the Void tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream-come-true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her 28 years old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match.
Everything changes when an offer is proposed to match Yochay – the late Esther’s husband – to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it’s too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls’ mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart’s wish and her family duty…
Stills
Behind the scenes
DIRECTOR
Cast
- Hadas Yaron – Shira
- Yiftach Klein – Yochay
- Irit Sheleg – Rivka
- Chaim Sharir – Aharon
- Razia Israely – Aunt Hanna
- Hila Feldman – Frieda
- Renana Raz – Esther
- Yael Tal – Shifi
- Michael David Weigl – Shtreicher
- Ido Samuel – Yossi
- Neta Moran – Bilha
- Melech Thal – Rabbi
Crew
- Rama Burshtein – Director
- Assaf Amir – Producer
- Rama Burshtein – Scriptwriter
- Asaf Sudry – Director of Photography
- Sharon Elovic – Editor
- Ori Aminov – Art Director
- Yitzhak Azulay – Original Score
- Chani Gurewitz – Costume Design
- Moti Hefetz – Sound Recording
- Aviv Aldema – Sound Design
- Michal Koren – Casting
- Eti Bennun – Makeup Artist
- Adi Halfin – 1st Assistant Director
- Adar Shafran, Roni Abramovski – Line Producer
- Tammy Cohen – Post Production Producer
- Vered Adir, Karin Bar – Stills
The film was produced with the support of
