Hofshat Kaits by David Volach

(via einikel of a masmid) Congratulations to David Volach for winning 2007 Tribeca Film Award for Best Narrative Feature for his film My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits). Tribeca Film Festival-Award Winners 2007

Video: David Volach accepting the award from Robert DeNiro.

"This powerful and heartbreaking film takes a look at the price that may be exacted by a rigid observation of religious tenets. Its central character, a respected rabbi in an ultra-Orthodox community—who is also a father and husband—s forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family."

Variety.com - Reviews: My Father My Lord.

"Helmer-scribe Volach knows this world from personal experience, having been born into an ultra-Orthodox family of 19 children and having lived and studied in such a Hasidic cocoon until the age of 25. His harsh rejection of its strictures, therefore, is all the more devastating for being delivered not with anger but with love."