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Trembling Before G-d (NY Premiere) - Closing Night (SOLD OUT)
Sandi Simcha Dubowski - US - 2000 - 84m - 35 mm - documentary
In English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Shot over five years in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and London - director Sandi Simcha Dubowski has orchestrated a film of unparalleled scope with his remarkable TREMBLING BEFORE G-D. This feature-length documentary is about Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who "come out" as gays and lesbians and as a result must reconcile their sexual orientation with the drastic discipline of their tradition. They struggle with a way to negotiate their predicament and ultimately are forced to question how they can pursue truth and faith in their lives. TREMBLING BEFORE G-D gives us an opportunity to understand the way modern perceptions about sexuality have come to challenge entrenched religious views, which condemn homosexual lifestyles and have forced many gay people in Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish communities into isolation. As the film unfolds, we meet intolerant rabbis, narrow-minded family members, and abandoned gays and lesbians who are all struggling to solve an inscrutable dilemma: how it is possible to remain true to familiar, age-old traditions and values and simultaneously be true to oneself. TREMBLING BEFORE G-D takes a provocative look at issues that have rarely been publicly discussed. Opening at Film Forum in October, 2001
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