The Unorthodox

The protagonist, Yaakov Cohen (Shuli Rand), is driven to form a religious political party representing the interests of Sephardic Jews.

The incident that drives Cohen is the expulsion of his daughter Heli (Or Lumbrozo) from a Bais Yaakov school, owing to her Sephardic background.The movie opened the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival.

Yaakov Cohen (played by Shuli Rand) is a widower, the owner of a printing press, and a single father.

When his daughter Chali (played by Or Lumbrozo) is expelled from her seminary, he becomes outraged by the discrimination and racism within the educational institutions of Beit Yaakov and Agudat Yisrael, as well as the meager budgets allocated to Sephardic schools.

Later, they launch a list for the national Knesset elections, but over time, Cohen finds his position increasingly marginalized.