Florida Premiere
Official Entry at Tribeca Film Festival
Sunday, Dec. 7 4:45 pm
U.S.A., 2003 Pearl Gluck, director
English 80 min.

In this funny, intelligent documentary, Pearl Gluck travels from Borough Park, Brooklyn to Hungary to
reclaim an ancestral couch upon which esteemed rabbis slept upon. A simple search for a sofa
becomes a metaphor for the Hasidic community Gluck left as a teenager, but to which she still feels
an important and irrevocable connection. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets
involved-the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of matchmakers, and a
renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. In weaving together threads of memory, longing
and cultural identity, Gluck celebrates family and history.

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