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Boston Jewish Film Festival - The Fifth Heaven

Palestine under the British mandate. Maya, 13, is dropped off by her father at an orphanage. Only she’s not an orphan, just part of a dysfunctional family. Complicating her search for self are her fellow orphans, the head of the orphanage, who knows her parents from a previous life and a young Israeli soldier. Hebrew with English subtitles. Based on a novel by Rachel Eytan. Director Dina Zvi-Riklis will be present.

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