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on the conflict between the religious and the secular or between the individual and the religious community. Geula shows the diverse realities that surround an isolated person (isolated both from his religious community and the secular world). However, by portraying Menachem’s struggle as burdened by the nar- row-mindedness of both worlds, his religiousness as starting as “consumption” (with grandiose signs expected from God), and his self-righteousness as creat- ing only a temporary escape (with which Menachem’s journey starts), Madmo- ny and Yacov give a certain universal appeal to the story.29 By coming to terms 29 At the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival Geula won the audience choice award and was recognized as the Jewish Experience of the festival. See Tobias 2018. Geula won the main prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2018), while the lead actor, Moshe Folkenflik, received the Fig. 6: Broken Boarders. Film still, Geula (Joseph Madmony / Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, IL 2018), 00:56:28. Fig. 5: Gaze into a Different Reality. Film still, Geula (Joseph Madmony / Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, IL 2018), 00:56:23. Constructing Space, Changing Reality of Israel through Film | 119www.jrfm.eu 2019, 5/1