Tonight at 6:30 p.m., the Little will screen Brothers (Igaal Niddam, Switzerland, 116 min.) as part of The Best of the Fests series.

The differences between Dan and [Aharon], Argentine brothers with opposing religious philosophies, come to a head when the deeply religious [Aharon] travels to Jerusalem and, for the first time in 25 years, encounters Dan, a shepherd who lives on a secular kibbutz in southern Israel. [Aharon], a distinguished NYC attorney and a Torah scholar, has been asked to defend the right of Orthodox yeshiva students to be exempt from military service, a case that mirrors the intense struggle between Israel's religious and political principles. As might be expected, the brothers cannot understand each other's values or convictions. Their complex story touches on what it means to be Jewish and delves into Israel's ongoing debate about separating "state" from religion.

[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-May-28]