Sabbath Queen
Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: English, Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles
Starring: Amichai Lau-Lavie
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, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. With incredible access, award-winning director Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G-d, BJFF 2001) joins Rabbi Amichai on a life journey and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion while challenging gender norms in a rapidly changing 21st century.