Maya Steinberg is a secular Israeli. Her father, however, had a late religious awakening. He will not appear in her film. Instead, the young director approaches his faith and her lack of understanding for it through a visit to the gravesite of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Galilee, where she spends a few weeks, observing believers, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox, and wondering: Is there a place here for women? And can there be a place for queer women?
Maya Steinberg
Maya Steinberg is a Tel Aviv-born, Berlin-based film director and editor. Her first film as a director, “Never Coming Back to America” premiered on Israeli channel 8 for documentaries. Her second, One of us Now premiered in the German short competition of Dok Leipzig 2022. She regularly works as a film editor in Israel and Germany and is currently preparing to start shooting her first feature film.