Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueberger

A hilarious coming of age first feature film by South African director Cathy Randall. The Bluebergers are doing their best to be a traditional Jewish family and many of the laughs are at their expense as they negotiate the plans for the joint bar and bat mitzvahs of their twins Esther and her geeky brother Jacob.

Esther Blueberger is a unique misfit in an elite girls school. She is also gutsy, opinionated and refreshingly determined to be true to her own ideals rather than conform. Any schoolgirl whose best friend is a duck she rescued from the school laboratory and named ‘Normal’ is likely to find life difficult in her teenage years. It is not until Esther meets the equally non-conformist Sunni (Castle-Hughes Star Wars and Whale Rider) and her outrageous mother (Toni Collette) that she finds kindred spirits who lead her in unexpected directions.