(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary Sabbath Queen on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at Temple Emeth. The film was directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski. Showtime is 3:00pm.

Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. 

Sabbath Queen joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door (if still available). Tickets for this screening and the entire festival are available for purchase online. Temple Emeth is located at 1666 Windsor Road in Teaneck, New Jersey.

The screening is sponsored by Brian A. Kates (of Teaneck) & Jonathan Cohen. Following the film there will be a talkback with Director Sandi Dubowski.

The Teaneck International Film Festival (TIFF) takes place November 7-14, 2024 across several venues in Teaneck, New Jersey. The festival features  over 25 films, panel discussions, and parties, with filmmakers, actors, elected officials and industry guests  in attendance.

With the support of the nonprofit organization Puffin Foundation, Ltd., a small group of dedicated volunteers set out, more than 20 years ago, to create an event that would present a collection of compelling and imaginative feature-length films, documentaries, and shorts from a variety of cultures that would lead audiences to question, debate, and become caring and involved citizens who recognize the need to institute positive change. TIFF has found its niche on the film festival circuit, and, having been dubbed by the Star-Ledger, “the film festival with a social conscience,” is growing in reputation as well as numbers.