Menashe

Showings

O Cinema North Beach Fri, Aug 18, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Fri, Aug 18, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 19, 2017 3:00 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 19, 2017 4:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 19, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 19, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 20, 2017 3:00 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 20, 2017 4:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 20, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 20, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Mon, Aug 21, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Mon, Aug 21, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Tue, Aug 22, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Tue, Aug 22, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Wed, Aug 23, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Wed, Aug 23, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Thu, Aug 24, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Thu, Aug 24, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Fri, Aug 25, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Fri, Aug 25, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 26, 2017 3:00 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 26, 2017 4:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 26, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Aug 26, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 27, 2017 3:00 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 27, 2017 4:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 27, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Aug 27, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Mon, Aug 28, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Mon, Aug 28, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Tue, Aug 29, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Tue, Aug 29, 2017 8:15 PM
O Cinema North Beach Wed, Aug 30, 2017 5:00 PM
O Cinema North Beach Thu, Aug 31, 2017 6:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Thu, Aug 31, 2017 8:15 PM

Description

Deep in the heart of New York’s ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, Menashe, a kind, hapless grocery store clerk, struggles to make ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven, following his wife Leah’s death.

 

Tradition prohibits Menashe from raising his son alone, so Rieven’s strict uncle adopts him, leaving Menashe heartbroken. Meanwhile, though Menashe seems to bungle every challenge in his path, his rabbi grants him one special week with Rieven before Leah’s memorial. It’s his chance to prove himself a suitable man of faith and fatherhood, and restore respect among his doubters.

 

Performed entirely in Yiddish, the colloquial language of the Hasidic community, MENASHE uses intimate, handheld camerawork to drop us inside and humanize a hermetically sealed world of black-hatted, working-class men debating in crowded shuls or seeking counsel in the rabbi’s library. And yet Menashe is in many ways an outsider in this tight-knit circle, as he bucks convention and ruffles feathers to stay true to himself.