When thirteen year old Aharon,is selected for the great honor of carrying the big Torah book around the neighborhood in 'Simchat Torah' celebrations, he feels life is finally about to change for the better. But his selection causes age-old tensions between his parents to surface, and the symbolic happy ritual becomes a life-threatening struggle.
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Lior Ashkenazi
Bezalel Ninio
Known for
Big Bad Wolves
Hit & Run
Uri Gavriel
Assi Levy
Rosa Ninio
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Agam Ozalvo
Aharon Ninio
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Eshet Hayil
Noa Astanjelove
Aliza Vaknin
Also in
Black Space
Dismissed
Florence Bloch
Rachel
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Sex, Love & Therapy
Jonathan Cherchi
Tiron
Known for
Not Without My Daughter
Yakov Cohen
Yaacov
Also in
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Shay Elkayam
Tami
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Yehudit Enoshi
Ora
Also in
Bracha
Omer Hazan
Meir Vaknin
Known for
The Engineer
Albert Iluz
Simon
Known for
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Lee Gilat Director · Shai Goldman Cinematographer Einat Glaser-Zarhin Editor
Budget $1.2M · First release June 18, 2014 · Produced in Israel
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$1,156,019
Production
Israel
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Languages
Original title
הקפות
Original language
Hebrew
Spoken on screen
Hebrew
Release dates
Israel · June 18, 2014
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