Movie Description:
Trembling Before G-D is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religous fundamentalism.Built around intimately told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews whoare gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profounddilemma, how to reconcile theirpassion-ate love for Judaism and the Divine withthe drastic biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. As the film unfolds, we meeta range of individuals some hidden, some out from the world`s first openly gay Ortho-dox rabbi, to closeted, married Hasidicgays and lesbians. Many have been tragically rejected andtheir pain is raw, yet with irony, humor, and resilie-nce, they love, care, struggle, and deb-ate wtih a tradition that is thousands of years old. Vividly shotwith a courageous few over five years in Brooklyn, Jerusalem,Los Angeles, London, Miami, andSan Francisco, Trembling Before G-D is an international project with global implications that strikes at the meaningof spirituality and tradition in the world.
