Plot Summary

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent Montréal borough of Outremont.​Some 7,000 Hasidim live in or near this choice neighbourhood of Québec’s Francophone elite. After settling there more than 70 years ago, the Hasidim are a rapidly growing minority group which today represents about 23% of Outremont’s population.​Thanks to unprecedented access to this self-isolated community, the film lifts the veil on its practices, traditions, music and life as they had never before been seen on Canadian television, without ignoring the community’s expectations, fears. and hopes.

Movie Details

Original Title
Outremont and Hasidism
Status
released
Original Language
en

Where to watch free (US)

Kanopy
Tubi TV
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Cast

Mindy Pollack as Mindy Pollack

Mindy Pollack

Mindy Pollack

Production Companies

CBC logoCBC
Menemsha Films
Société Radio-Canada logoSociété Radio-Canada
Productions des Quatre Jeudis