When your faith has all the answers but your grief has none.
Ruth and Shmuel, a young couple from the ultra-Orthodox world, thought they knew everything about love. She, a sensitive young mother, constantly tests boundaries—but with grace. He, a brilliant yeshiva student, has a promising future in the yeshiva world. But when tragedy hits them, everything they believed about family, community, parenting—and even God—is put to the test. RUTH is a moving, intimate drama with surreal moments. A story about two people trying not to lose each other, yet speaking different languages that widen the emotional and religious gap between them, in a world where asking questions—especially the hard ones—is forbidden.
Acting
Kleinstein's Ruth: grief as performance art, restrained until it shatters.
Direction
Biton Shushan merges mundane ritual with dreamlike horror seamlessly.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic interiors that make the outside world feel forbidden.
Director
Esti Biton Shushan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Biton Shushan herself left the ultra-Orthodox world; the film's forbidden questions mirror her own.
The title's biblical echo is deliberate—Ruth chose a new people, but this Ruth cannot choose to leave.
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