Confined Spaces (2019)

Shira Ukrainitz, a secular Jew, and Omar A. Razzak, a non-religious Muslim, live in Catholic Spain and merge documentary filmmaking with animation to figure out the space that religion occupies in the Universe. The name of this fantastic experimental film is highly atypical. The word ‘Halal’ translates from Arabic to «permissible or lawful,« while in Hebrew it means “space, the outer space.” Why and how do our religions divide our interconnected universe into separate spaces and construct invisible boundaries? Razzak and Ukrainitz suggest that sometimes the permissible, approved spaces become too confined, and freedom becomes possible only in outer spaces.