In Satmar Custody is an independent documentary film

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...

, written and directed by Nitzan Gilady

Nitzan Gilady

Nitzan Gilady is an Israeli film director who has written, produced and directed the documentary films In Satmar Custody and Jerusalem Is Proud to Present and The Last Enemy....

. It tells the story of the Jaradis, a Yemeni Jewish

Yemenite Jews

Yemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen . Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet...

 married couple whose children were removed and forcefully put into the custody of a Satmar

Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)

Satmar is a Hasidic movement comprising mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants. It was founded and led by the late Hungarian-born Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum , who was the rabbi of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary...

 orphanage within its community in Brooklyn, New York.

Aside from illustrating the sorrowful position of the refugee Jaradis, the film also displays many characteristics of the Satmar order as it operates today, from its Haredi

Haredi Judaism

Haredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism is the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to as ultra-Orthodox. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....

 withdrawal from secular society, as well the community's vehement denial of the legitimacy for the State of Israel to exist.