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Tahara

Country: USA, Language: English, 78 mins

  • Director: Olivia Peace
  • Writer: Jess Zeidman
  • Producer: Madison Ginsberg; Dasha Gorin; Mighty Oak; Jess Zeidman

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Begrudgingly participating in a mandatory Hebrew school “teen talkback” to process a classmate’s passing, sheepish Carrie (Madeline Grey DeFreece) unexpectedly sparks her queer awakening after a practice lip-lock in the bathroom with her horny and hetero bestie Hannah (Rachel Sennott). Over the course of the hectic and transformative day, the two teens find themselves wrestling with increasingly complicated feelings of mortality, social ranking, and desire.

For her uproarious and incisive generational debut, director Olivia Peace evokes the unique confines of contemporary youth by shooting in a tight 1:1 aspect ratio (a square format emulating an Instagram post) and cheekily articulates the characters’ overwhelming emotional extremes with bursts of buoyant animation. Two megastars on the rise, Sennott and DeFreece embody their roles with visceral precision, exploring the often inexpressible storm of adolescence with a defiantly modern and universal sensibility, along with crackling one-liners and bittersweet confrontations.

—JESSE KNIGHT


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Cast & Characters

Madeline Grey DeFreece as Carrie Lowstein
Rachel Sennott as Hannah Rosen
Daniel Taveras as Tristan Leibotwitz
Bernadette Quigley as Moreh Klein
Shlomit Azoulay as Elaina Cohen
Jenny Lester as Melissa
Rachel Wender as Natalie
Keith Weiss as Zack
Lynne Taylor as Mrs. Goldstein
Melissa Lawson as Rachel F.
Ellie Anthony as Rachel G.
Joe Burns as Mr. Lowstein
Martin Leubitz as Hazzan Berger