Director: Guido Chiesa
Based on the novel The Loves of Judith by Meir Shalev,
Starring: Mili Avital. Ana Ularu, Ori Pfeffer, Alban Ukaj, and Marc Rissmann
Select Theaters!
New York, NY // Quad Cinema, June 26
Los Angeles, CA // Laemmle Royal, July 10
Encino, CA // Laemmle Town Center, July 10
Director Guido Chiesa’s FOR THE LOVE OF A WOMAN tells the story of Esther, in the 1970s,an American woman mourning her mother, receives a letter that sets her on a journey to uncover a hidden chapter of her family’s history. With the help of Zayde, a university professor with secrets of his own, she begins searching for a woman who lived decades earlier in British Mandate Palestine.
The woman is Yehudit, whose arrival in a settlers’ village in the 1930s entangled the lives of three men: a widowed father, an idealistic farmer and a cattle trader. By tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde discover a shocking truth.