Sabbath Queen

Documentary (English, Hebrew, Yiddish with subtitles – 1h45min). Tickets $12 each.

With special guest, local drag queen, Alistair Abulafia DeVane Summers.

Film Co-Sponsor: Twisted Arts Film Festival. Visit TwistedFest.org for more.

Filmed over 21 years, "Sabbath Queen" follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s journey as the heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis who is torn between accepting his ancestral destiny or becoming a drag queen rebel. In addition to his drag persona, Lau-Lavie is a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul: an everybody-friendly, G-d optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. With incredible access, award-winning director Sandi DuBowski ("Trembling Before G-d," Sundance 2001) joins Rabbi Amichai on a life journey and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual while challenging gender norms in a rapidly changing 21st century.