Alef b'Tamuz א' בתמוז

Directed by Yael Reisfeld · Starring Baruch Israeli, Carmel Kendel · 2018

In Safed's old Jewish cemetery, pilgrims pray at the graves of Kabbalist rabbis in search of redemption, in a hybrid of 2D animation and documentary sound where the mystical seeps into the everyday.

An award-winning blend of animation and documentary that captures the mystical pull of an ancient Kabbalist cemetery.

In the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Safed, people come from afar to pray on the graves of rabbis from the golden age of Kabbalah in the 16th century, sometimes with hope to find redemption to their life problems.

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