Praying with Lior
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Praying with Lior is a documentary
about a Jewish boy, Lior, who has Down syndrome
. The film follows Lior and his family as they prepare for Lior's bar mitzvah.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about a Jewish boy, Lior, who has Down syndrome
Down syndrome
Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...
. The film follows Lior and his family as they prepare for Lior's bar mitzvah.