JCC Film Festival – Where Life Begins
6 June 2023 @ 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Where Life Begins
7:15pm @ the Neon (130 East Fifth Street, Dayton, OH 45402)
Cost:
Individual Ticket $12
Season pass $85 (11 movies includes opening night)
FEATURE
100 minutes
Italian, French w/subtitles
Winner: Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature
Anchorage International Film Festival 2022
Audience Award for Best Narrative – Jewish International Film Festival Australia 2022
An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria, Italy for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way, Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time.