''M'' is a 2018 French
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by
Yolande Zauberman
Yolande Zauberman () is a French film director and screenwriter.
Career
She made her debut in cinema working alongside Amos Gitai. In 1987 she directed her first documentary ''Classified People'', dealing with apartheid in South Africa, which wo ...
. It follows ''Menachem Lang'', aged 35, as he returns to
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak ( ) or Bene Beraq, is a city located on the central Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an area of 709 hectares (1,752 acre ...
to confront the men who abused him as a child, to discuss child abuse with other members of the ultra-Orthodox community and to attempt to reconcile with his parents.
In 2020 it received the
César Award Cesar or César may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* César (film), ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama
* César (film), ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt
Places
* Cesar, Portugal
* Cesar Department, Colombia
* Cesar R ...
for
Best Documentary Film.
Plot
Cast
*
Talleen Abu Hanna
Talleen Abu Hanna (Arabic: تالین ابو حنا, Hebrew: תאלין אבו חנא; born 30 July 1994) is an Israeli-Arab beauty pageant winner, model, actress, and television personality. In 2016, she was crowned the first-ever Miss Trans I ...
as Self
References
External links
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2018 films
2018 documentary films
2010s French films
French documentary films
Yiddish-language films
Films set in Israel
Films directed by Yolande Zauberman
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