Special Screening

SABBATH QUEEN

Monday, August 18, 2025 | 7:00pm

Little Theatre 5 (8 Winthrop St.)
Doors open at 6:30pm

Monday ticket prices
Tickets available online in advance, at our box office during open hours, or at the door (if available).

SABBATH QUEEN, a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.

SABBATH QUEEN joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.

SABBATH QUEEN is directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski.

Screened as part of ImageOut’s 2024 fall festival. 

ImageOut

For over 30 years, ImageOut has enriched the greater Rochester area as an arts & cultural organization, celebrating and bringing visibility to LGBTQ+ artists and themed work, by showcasing films — at two annual film festivals and screenings throughout the year — as well as promoting creative works and artists to bring awareness, foster dialogue and build community. Join us for our “First Cut” Spring Festival April 27-May 2. Find out more at imageout.org