Israel | 2018 

When Yakov Cohen’s daughter is expelled from school for ethnic reasons, he decides to fight back. It’s 1983 and Yakov, a printer in Jerusalem, is just a regular guy. He has no knowledge, no money, no connections and no political experience. But he does have the will and the passion to take action, and a belief that he and and other Sephardic Jews should be able to hold their heads up high. Yakov brings two friends along and together they start the first ethnic political group in Jerusalem, with an operation characteristic of the people they represent: not the suit-wearing types, but rather the people working their way up from the bottom. Their operation is informal, full of love for their fellow man, animated by a great sense of humor and a whole lot of rage.

An interesting lecture via zoom at the end of the film: 

After many years of absence, since the beginning of the 21st century, the representation of the orthodox Jew has become more and more dominant in the Israeli cinema.in the lecture we would try to understand why this had happened using examples from Israeli films such as “Kadosh” and “Ushpizin”

Ron Fogel is senior lecturer on cinema in universities and collages and a film critic on KAN -Israeli broadcasting corporation.

Ron is a member of the Israeli academy of film and tv and a member of the national committee for cinema in the ministry of culture.