For the Love of a Woman

Directed by: Guido Chiesa
117 minutes, 2025, Drama; Israel Film Center Festival

Festival year: 2026

Screening followed by Q+A with director Guido Chiesa and screenwriter Nicolette Micheli.

Full Synopsis

Esther, an American woman (Mili Avital), travels to Jerusalem to search for a missing part of her family history. With the help of an Israeli professor (Ori Pfeffer), Esther discovers a shocking truth about herself and how it all connects to the era of early settlers in the 30’s. This surprising English-language romantic drama, uniting the past and the present, is based on the novel “The Loves of Judith” by the beloved author Meir Shalev.

Showtimes

Monday Jun 15 | 5:30 PM EDT Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan