PARABLE · Film
A working father in first-century Galilee tries to teach his son how to be a man. The boy already knows things the father will never understand.
Slate indexNotes from the Studio
The film approaches sacred history through ordinary labor: splinters, rent, weather, pride, and a father's fear that the child in his care belongs to more than the household.
PARABLE lets reverence and dramatic tension occupy the same room.
Tomas Navon, Ilan Regev, Sarai Haddad
Historical adviser Leora Ben-Ami. Production design by Micah Sol.
PARABLE adjacency
Asher Lindgren · Released
A faith-driven drama about inheritance and forgiveness.
Daniel Ortega-Ruiz · Development
The conquest of Canaan as it was actually fought. Forty years of preparation. Seven years of war. One man asked to inherit a promise older than himself.
Anna Greer · Post-Production
A risk-averse father, given six months to live, begins a methodical search for the man his wife will marry next. He keeps a spreadsheet. His wife does not know.