Created and written by
Aleeza Chanowitz
Directors
Aaron Geva and Mickey Triest
Cinematographer
Ziv Berkovich
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection - 2023
HOT / 2022
Comedy
Just like the other young women from her religious Jewish community in Brooklyn, Chanshi is on the right track. She’s a walking uterus, engaged to a great guy, who she will make cholent for, and birth at least six of their children. But unlike her peers, Chanshi carries with her a secret fantasy that a good religious girl like her shouldn’t: she wants to have lots of sex. With Israeli soldiers. In the desert in the Middle East. Just before her wedding, to a man she doesn’t really know, she suddenly decides to abandon everything familiar to her, and immigrate to Israel. Needless to say, her family is opposed. It is precisely in the Jewish homeland, the “Holy Land”, in the heart of Jerusalem, that Chanshi goes through a wild and sexy journey. She breaks boundaries, and becomes the free and adventurous woman that she was born to be. For the first time in her life, she’s the one in control. But the transition from a life with a clear set of rules, to a life without any rules at all, thrusts her into a whirlpool. Chanshi is forced to deal with her religious and sexual identity.