Other titles on Alma’s Efm slate include A Bluebird In My Heart and To The Ends Of The World.Paris-based Alma Cinema has boarded sales on Israeli director Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s coming-of-age tale Para Aduma (aka Red Cow), revolving around the explosive sexual awakening between two girls from Israel’s orthodox settler community, ahead of its premiere in Generation at the Berlinale.Big screen debutant Avigail Kovari plays Benny, a 16-year-old red head growing-up in an orthodox settlement in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem who is given the task of caring for a new-born, pure red heifer.The animal’s birth is seen as a sign by her orthodox father and the rest of the community that the time has come to build a Third Temple for the Jewish people in Jerusalem, replacing the Second Temple destroyed two thousand years ago.This coincides with Benny’s growing antagonism towards her father’s religious, utopian nationalism
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