The Most Awarded Story of Women Ever!
Winner of 9 Israeli Academy Awards
An Unprecedented 8 Awards Won by Women
The family drama, which received the prestigious Nora Ephron-Award at Tribeca Film Festival, will premiere at New York City's Film Forum on 11 June and will be released nationwide starting 25 June.
Here is what the press had to say about the film:
“This delicately crafted (film)… offers an exquisite portrayal of a mother's devotion to her child. The film's genesis was born out of director Ruthy Pribar's traumatic personal experience when, 14 years ago, her own sister spent several months in the hospital while grievously ill. Their mother devoted herself day and night to be by her daughter's bedside, somehow drawing on exceptional inner strength not to break, remaining steadfastly caring. This memory has enveloped Ruthy's thinking, and Asia has allowed her to explore how and when a woman truly turns into a mother. Her efforts and the almost exclusively female production team she led have delivered multiple plaudits. “Even when in the darkest part of your life, you can see beauty.” – Moment Magazine
“The rare delicacy and emotional acuity with which Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar assembles In her unassumingly lovely debut feature, Pribar tackles thorny mother-daughter relations, terminal disease anguish and two generations of frustrated sexual yearning, without once shortcutting to easy sentimentality or high-pitched melodrama. She's not alone on that balance beam, of course: A pair of exquisitely pitched, mutually reflective performances by Alena Yiv and Shira Haas (fresh from her Emmy-nominated breakout turn in Netflix's “Unorthodox”) help this family drama stick fast in the head and heart.” – Variety
