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Felix and Meira

(Félix et Meira)

Year 2014
Runtime 105 mins
Language French/English/Yiddish
Subtitles English

A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.

In Maxime Giroux's latest feature, an unusual romance blos­soms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neigh­bourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal's Mile End dis­trict who secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and taking birth control pills; Félix (Martin Dubreuil) is a loner grieving the recent death of his estranged father. Intrigued by Meira, Félix hopes her religious devotion will provide insight into his loss, and though she rebuffs him at first a mutual affection soon arises between the two. As Meira's desire for change becomes harder for her to hide, the young woman is faced with a stark choice: remain within the community she has always known, or pursue an uncertain future outside of it.

 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

Countries

Canada
Awards
Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2014, Whistler Film Festival 2014, Chicago International Film Festival 2014
Director
Maxime Giroux
Producer
Sylvain Corbeil and Nancy Grant
Screenwriter
Alexandre Laferrière and Maxime Giroux
Editor
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Cast
Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron, Luzer Twersky