Israeli director Ruthy Pribar is back at Tribeca with What Is to Come, a film that pushes further than her previous work.
According to Deadline's exclusive reveal, the director's sophomore feature stars Ronit Yudkevitch as Yehudit, a sheltered farmer's wife caught in a nightmare scenario. Yehudit backs out of a suicide pact—one that leaves her husband dead—and flees the shame and mounting debts that follow.
Pribar's return to the festival comes with a clear signal: the Israeli filmmaker avoids safe narratives. What Is to Come examines female emancipation, survival guilt, and what happens when a woman chooses life over loyalty to a broken system.
Yudkevitch's performance as Yehudit carries the weight of impossible choices. The character could become a victim in weaker hands, but in Pribar's vision she is something more complex: a woman fighting for her own narrative on her own terms.
The exclusive first clip offers a preview of what promises to be an uncompromising examination of female agency in a world that demands women sacrifice themselves. Pribar's previous film earned recognition, and this follow-up is already generating attention before its Tribeca premiere.
The film hits the Tribeca lineup next week.
