Nor By Day Nor By Night

Nor By Day Nor By Night

This program is proudly sponsored by Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN DC)

Set in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, this absorbing and powerful drama from Jerusalem-born director Phinehas Veuillet is a meticulously detailed narrative centered around a conflict between Shmuel, the patriarch of a French Sephardic family, and the headmaster at his son’s school. Despite the boy’s educational qualifications and remarkable abilities as a star pupil, he is not accepted within a very prestigious, predominantly Ashkenazi Yeshiva; the family feels this is due to their Sephardic lineage.

Unwilling to accept this reality, Shmuel takes action—which will lead to tragedy…[a] deeply personal work of a filmmaker who left a strict Orthodox community at a young age, later using cinema to explore the contours of the world he knew.

Conversation with Afraim Katzir, Executive Director of Shin DC, following the screening.