Wedding Doll
When Hagit, a young woman with a mild mental deficiency who works in a toilet-paper factory and lives with her mother, embarks on her first romantic relationship, she keeps it a secret from her overbearing mom (Asi Levi, winner of the Best Actress prize at the 2015 Jerusalem Film Festival).
Hagit, a young woman with a mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory and lives with her mother, Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. When Hagit embarks on her first romantic relationship, she keeps it a secret from her overbearing mom. Israeli director Nitzan Gilady sparkles in his feature debut, a richly detailed family drama for which Asi Levi’s performance as Sarah earned her the Best Actress prize at the 2015 Jerusalem Film Festival.
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