Featuring an in-person Q&A with director Sandi Dubowski. 

A festival favorite and NY Times Critic’s Pick, SABBATH QUEEN is a riveting personal story about daring to lead with courage and integrity and challenging essential aspects of identity to find one’s own truth. Amichai Lau-Lavie’s spiritual practice is grounded in Jewish mysticism, radical faeries, drag theater, and ancient scripture but is inseparable from his identity as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis. As his brother takes his seat in the family and follows in the footsteps of their father, one of the most powerful Orthodox rabbis in Israel, Amichai forges a different path in New York City, establishing an alternative place of worship called Lab/Shul. As Lau-Levie grows his spiritual practice and becomes an outspoken leader and voice for equality and peace, his Judaism directly clashes with the mainstream.

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