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Family in Transition

Family in Transition (Mishpakha BiTrans)

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  • Israel
  • 2018
  • · 60m

Director Ofir Trainin
Genre Documentary

A father of a family from Nahariya suddenly decides to share his secret desire to become a woman. Despite personal difficulties and social stigmas, the family members insist on staying together, believing that love will overcome all difficulties. Family in Transition offers an intimate, candid, and stirring portrait of the family.

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70

L.A. Weekly by Meave Gallagher

The Tsuk children, with remarkable equanimity, evince the least surprise at their parents’ later actions. Hebrew speakers may be better able to appreciate nuances that the sometimes stilted, distracting subtitles seem to obscure. But those open, honest faces — the story they tell transcends words.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Family in Transition stands out both for the particularities inherent in its setting and the deeply sympathetic individuals at its center.

63

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

We can sense that whatever love story Trainin set out to make, the one the Tsuk’s provide isn’t going to be the one expected.

60

The New York Times by Ken Jaworowski

Trainin’s film spends a good deal of its running time surveying the emotions that affect everyone here, including the Tsuk children. Yet there’s quite a bit left unexplored; after the start, the director rarely returns to examine Amit’s past or seek insights into Amit’s inner self.

60

Los Angeles Times by Kimber Myers

Trainin tries too hard at times to make a moving scene even more moving, undercutting the narrative, and should put more trust in the strength of the story he is telling.