One of Us Now

by Maya Steinberg
  • 2022 Maya Steinberg
  • 2022 Maya Steinberg
  • 2022 Maya Steinberg

    Synopsis

    Maya Steinberg is a secular Israeli. Her father, however, had a late religious awakening. He will not appear in her film. Instead, the young director approaches his faith and her lack of understanding for it through a visit to the gravesite of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Galilee, where she spends a few weeks, observing believers, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox, and wondering: Is there a place here for women? And can there be a place for queer women? [65 DOK Leipzig, Marie Kloos]

    Festivals

    2022
    65 DOK Leipzig
    26 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
    2023
    Ethnografilm Paris
    Achtung Berlin FF
    17 Ethnocineca IDFF Vienna
    20 Freiburger Filmforum – Festival of Transcultural Cinema
    47 Duisburger Filmwoche