In His Place

A complicated and nonliteral Jewish film about feelings the name for which has not yet been invented. A friend of the family in which the wife died in labour loved her more than life itself, although he will never say it out loud. He gladly agrees to babysit the child for a day and brings her home, where he is suddenly faced with resentment from his relatives. This multifigured film with beautiful unspoken truths talks about widowhood of other people and oneself, about others’ children who can be dearer than the yet unborn children of one’s own, and about love that does not follow the loved one into the grave.

Cast

Doraid Liddawi

Omar

Gali Blecher

Gali

Vitali Friedland

Eyal

Maria Zreik

Mira

Salwa Nakkara

Nur

Anat Hadid

Lin

Mahmoud More

Fadi

Mohammad Bakri

Mohammad