CLOSING NIGHT

New Jersey Premiere

TORN

Can one be a Catholic priest and an observant Jew at the same time? Twelve years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest, Romuald Waszkinel discovers that he was born to Jewish parents, and that his name was Jacob Weksler. The film follows his personal journey from conducting mass in a church in Poland to his life as an observant Jew on a religious kibbutz in Israel. With sensitivity and depth, this unusual documentary captures the life of a deeply spiritual person, torn between two identities, and unable to renounce either.