Programme Overview

Description

A dystopian drama starring some of Israel’s top acting talent, Autonomies is a globally-relevant tale centering on the burning issues of identity, religion, politics and personal freedom.

The story is set in an alternate reality of present day Israel, a nation torn and divided by a wall into the secular “State of Israel”, with Tel Aviv as its capital, and the “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem, run by an ultra-Orthodox religious group.

Living in the Autonomy, amongst this uneasy territorial status quo, is Broide, an Ultra-Orthodox wheeler-dealer who makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the two regions. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: he is asked to kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families – one Ultra-Orthodox and one secular – and smuggle her across the border between the two territories. This “Solomon’s Trial” of a legal saga, followed by the kidnapping of the child, fuels a dramatic uproar that threatens to tear a fragile country to pieces.

Meanwhile, an impossible love story develops between Broide and Anna, a musician from the opposite side of the wall. Dramatically strong and thematic, their ill-advised love affair symbolically unites a divided nation, if only for a moment in Anna’s bed. With Israel once again aflame and civil war closer than ever, a great longing for home arises from among the fragments, walls and tears…

From the writing team behind Shtisel, The series sold to Topic US and HBOMax Latin America 

Production Info

Language

Duration

5x60'

Broadcaster

HOT (Israel)

Subtitles

Production Company

Created and Written by

Yehonatan Indursky & Ori Elon

Awards

Reflet d'Or for Best TV Series, Geneva International Film Festival 2018Best Costume Design, 2019 Israel Academy of TV Awards

Festival Screening

World Premiere at Series Mania 2018

Production Company

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