SABBATH QUEEN

Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic 20-year journey from drag-queen rebel to rabbinical student to spiritual innovator as he creatively and radically reinvents religion and ritual for the 21st century. Lau-Lavie is the founder of Lab/Shul, an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up congregation. A queer feminist interfaith-marrying renegade, Lau-Lavie is a descendant of 39 generations of Orthodox rabbis, including Israel’s chief rabbis. Full of surprising, profound, and hilarious twists, this powerful story is deeply old and radically new. Sabbath Queen is a journey seeking the answers to life’s ultimate questions and wrestles with what it means to be human right now.

Official Selection of Tribeca Film Festival 2024 in Documentary Competition and IDFA 2024 Best of Fest