Mothers pamper their children, but the single mom in Netalie Brown’s Israeli feature film wins first prize in this category.

Anat (Dana Ivgy) is so protective of her son, Ido (Ben Sultan), that she threatens to emasculate him. Her obsessive actions unfold in Oxygen, a competently-crafted movie due to be screened at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which runs from June 4-14.

Anat, perfectly portrayed by Ivgy, cannot wait until Ido, her only child, finishes his army service and returns to Haifa. A dreamy teacher who loves poetry, she is a patriot whose retired father (Marek Rozenbaum) was a general in the army and a hero on the battlefield. In her classroom, Anat teaches her prepubescent students the value of patriotism.

Nonetheless, Anat is glad that Ido, a........

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