Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein)

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Fill the Void Blu-ray



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British distributors Artificial Eye have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Rama Burshtein's drama Fill the Void (2012), starring Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, and Irit Sheleg. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the county on March 24th.

In 2012, Fill the Void won seven Israeli Film Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Cinematographer.

Fill the Void was also Israel's official submission in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academy Awards 2013.

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 twenty-eight-year-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…

Special Features:

Audio Commentary with actress Hadass Yaron & writer-director Rama Burshtein
Writer's Block: Q&A with Rama Burshtein
Original Trailer

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[Chad Plainview]

Wonderful film, with a fantastic performance from the female lead, makes my top 10 of the year.