AJFF Tickets – Leona (Friday, 1:30PM)

Description

COUNTRY: Mexico | YEAR: 2018 | RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes

Ariela is an independently-minded artist living with her family in a cloistered Jewish neighborhood in Mexico City. Pressured to find an appropriate suitor, serendipity leads to a passionate courtship with Ivan, a non-Jewish writer who shows her a world of possibilities beyond her sheltered life. As their feelings deepen, Ariela must weigh their unsanctioned relationship against rejection by her Syrian-Jewish family and community, where religious values and traditions run deep.

Bridging the divide between generations and cultures, writer-director Isaac Cherem’s directorial debut deftly blends romantic comedy with an incisive feminist journey of discovery and self-determination.

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