Sandi DuBowski Film Retrospective - Tomboychik (1993) and Trembling Before G-d (2001)

Sandi DuBowski Film Retrospective

Over the course of his two landmark feature films (and a handful of shorts), Sandi DuBowski has become one of the leading documentarians examining the intersections of Jewish and queer communities. Sandi will be present at both movies for a Q+A following the screening. 

Co-hosted by the Wexner Center for the Arts, this retrospective covers the highlights of DuBowski's career. Tickets are $8 -$10 for members, $12-$18 for the general public. Find tickets here. 

September 3, 7:00 p.m.

Tomboychik (1993) and Trembling Before G-d (2001)

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this landmark documentary that explores the spiritual lives and struggles of queer Orthodox Jews. Sandi DuBowski’s groundbreaking debut film Trembling Before G-d is an unprecedented documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism through intimately told personal stories of LGBTQ+ Hasidic and Orthodox Jews. The film follows a group of people who face a profound dilemma: how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the divine with the drastic biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. After the screening, DuBowski will discuss the film and its remarkable afterlife as it traveled the globe and changed the lives of countless individuals, their families, religious leaders, and communities. In English, Hebrew, and Yiddish with English subtitles. (94 mins., DCP)

DuBowski’s early short Tomboychik is an intimate portrait of 22-year-old DuBowski’s relationship with his 88-year-old grandmother. Their playful friendship shows a struggle with gender and sexuality across three generations. (15 mins., DCP)

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Wexner Center for the Arts

Wexner Center Film/Video Theater 
1871 N. High Street 
Columbus, OH 43210

The nearest parking is in the Ohio Union North Garage, 1780 College Road Columbus, Ohio 43210