PINCHAS

Director: Pini Tavger
Release Date: 2008
Runtime: 32 minutes
Genre: Short
Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew, Russian with subtitles

Synopsis:

Nine-year-old Pinhas comes from a Russian imigrant family. He lives with his mother, without a father or siblings. His mother barely makes a living working night shifts as a cashier at an “AM-PM” supermarket. In the afternoons, when Pinhas comes home from school, she still sleeps, and she devotes her spare time to the affair she has with a married man.

On the third floor lives a religious family, Pinhas is drawn to the warmth and unity that characterize this family. There he meets a girl his own age, and her older brother, who slowly introduces him to religion. The trouble begins when the two worlds – his mother and his new father figure – collide.

--Obtained from director's synopsis