Midlife

Midlife
Directed by: Danni Reisfeld, Yariv Horowitz

Written by: Hila Mor Reisferld, Danni Reisfeld, Livant Vardi Or-Zach

(Israel 2024, 98 mins, Hebrew, with English subtitles)

Cast: Tsahi Halevi, Chen Amsalem Zaguri, Shalom Assayag, Moran Gross

Synopsis:

Ahinoam, an ultra-Orthodox wife takes her daughters and walks out on her husband. The police pick them up and send the children back to their father. She goes to see her sister, Sari (Moran Cohen Gross), who left the fold years before, now living in Tel Aviv and married to Yonatan, an Israeli pilot (Tsahi Halevi). 

Pregnant Sari and Yonatan face a crisis of their own when Sari becomes ill. Yonatan has strong feelings of guilt over his philandering. Sari feels guilty about having turned her back on her sister, but would not welcome her into her new secular life, and turns her away.

Ahinoam goes back to the streets, where Nissim (Shalom Assayag), a spiritual leader in a West Bank Jewish settlement offers her a place to live. Sari and Yonatan seek out to Ahinoam and try to make amends, leading them to move to the settlement and embrace a very different lifestyle, which then leads to a new love story. 

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