Bashert Movie Night at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival

Please join Bashert and Kolenu before the movie at 8pm for a special reception at Cinerama with appetizers and "fruity smoothies."

EYES WIDE OPEN
Saturday, March 20, 9:15pm at Cinerama

About the film: The highly controversial topic of homosexuality in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community is examined in EYES WIDE OPEN when a butcher and married father falls in love with a seductive younger man. Aaron (Zohar Strauss) runs a kosher butcher shop and lives a quiet, orderly life with his wife and four sons. With the arrival of Ezri (Israeli heartthrob Ran Danker), life is disrupted by awakening, dormant feelings. When a next-door neighbor strays from righteousness, Aaron is forced to join the rabbi in making threats that could soon be redirected at him if he continues his passionate affair. He must choose between personal freedom and religious responsibility, in a world where the laws of free will and desire do not necessarily reign supreme.