Passover Fever (1995) *

Directed by Shemi Zarhin. With Gila Almagor, Ichio Avital and Alon Abutbul. An Israeli soap opera about a dysfunctional family meeting for the Seder banquet on Passover eve. There are suspicions of marital infidelity, mysterious eating disorders, predictions of snowstorms in April and other pressing matters. The film got an award for best screenplay at the 1995 Montreal WFF, but it should have won a Daytime Emmy instead.