Menashe

The Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish community is the principal scene of this movie. 'Menashe' tells the story of the protagonist of the same name, a Jewish father whose wife has just died. With mediocre work in a grocery store and always running everywhere, he barely manages to achieve a stable salary. Menashe struggles to regain custody of his son Rieven, but the local rabbi will ignore him until he remarries, because as the Torah says, "a man should not be alone." However, Menashe is not attracted to the idea of getting married again, because his former marriage was not very happy.

Although he and Rieven get along very well, Menashe has a hard time living with his son again, they both should get used to each other's company.

Being shot in a real community that currently exists provoques that the main actor and protagonist is not professional but is a member of the community itself and he knows the real situation of it.

This work stood out in the season of awards of the year of its premiere being nominated in the Gotham Awards for Best New Director and the Audience Award. He was also nominated for Best First Opera in the Independent Spirit Awards.

This is the first fiction film by Joshua Z Weinstein, and is shot entirely in English and Yiddish.