I
t’s been more than 80 years
since World War II, but in
the modern-day age, lin-
gering stereotypes persist. So
how does one navigate those
stereotypes in a relationship
where two parties come from
opposite sides of the world —
and life?
Enter Shira Shalev (Moran
Rosenblatt) and Maria Muller
(Luise Wolfram), an Israeli
Jewish and German lesbian
couple living in Shalev’s apart-
ment in Tel Aviv.
Then there’s Shalev’s con-
servative widowed grand-
mother, Berta Posnansky
(Rivka Michaeli), a Holocaust
survivor deeply impacted by
the past, and her boyfriend,
Ibrahim Hamati (Salim Dau),
a Palestinian doctor working
in Israel.
Together, tensions collide —
and tempers flare — as these
couples seemingly at complete
odds explore love and life in a
world where they’re destined
to clash.
Kiss Me Kosher, which will be
released on video-on-demand
and digital platforms on Oct.
20, is a coming-of-age roman-
tic comedy full of chaos and
laughs.
Written and directed by
Shirel Peleg, the largely Israeli
language film (which has bits of
English and German language
scattered throughout) crosses
borders — and decades.
As Shalev, an Israeli bar
owner, and Muller, a German
biologist, fall deeper and
deeper in love, a split second
in time changes everything.
Upon moving into Shalev’s
apartment, a ring accidentally
falls out of Muller’s luggage,
and Shalev believes she’s being
proposed to. Naturally, she
says yes to Muller.
Muller, equally in love with
Shalev, allows the moment to
unfold, however unexpected it
may be. While most of Shalev’s
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Tackles Generational Divides
Decades-old stereotypes threaten to tear apart two couples.
Kiss Me Kosher