A young Israeli girl finds her own means of escapism while struggling to cope with the inappropriate relationship she shares with her mother’s boyfriend.

While her mother is at work, 12-year-old Adar stays home with Michael, her mother’s boyfriend, who has quit his job as a school teacher and spends all day around the house. When Adar begins regularly missing school, the role-playing games between her and Michael move into increasingly disturbing territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan – an ethereal boy who joins her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.

Sensitively made and delicately executed, PRINCESS is a family drama that explores relationships between mother and daughter, daughter and mother’s live-in boyfriend, and sexual partners who freely display affection in front of their child.

The deeper psychology of people in these situations is eloquently explored, especially when it comes to denial and the lines that are crossed to keep ones family intact.

Young lead Shira Haas delivers a remarkable performance with a sinister undertone, effortlessly capturing the spirit of young girl trying to survive in a deeply dysfunctional family.

A powerful but unsettling film by first time Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer, PRINCESS was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.