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The last days of the Israeli community in Teheran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, through the story of a young Israeli family. Gora by Tal Shefi
Kaya, a 13-year-old Israeli-Nepalese girl and the director's daughter, joins a boxing club in Goa, India. Six Million in Two Rooms by Tomer Heymann
Tsi-la Piran, a second generation Israeli daughter of Holocaust survivors, chooses to deal with her personal demons of the past by treating the troubled second generation of the "Other Side". Second Round by Barak Heymann
The 6-part TV series tells the personal stories of a number of men and women who got divorced and had their family cells fall apart. Ohad by Tomer Heymann
An intimate portrait of Ohad Naharin, Israel's most dominant choreographer, and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company. Mishpuche by Ben Lewis
“Mishpuche” presents stories of Jews in modern times. The First Citizen by Daniel Sivan & Yossi Bloch
On July 8th 2006, a woman accused a man of raping her. That man was Moshe Katzav - the President of Israel. This was the beginning of the most shocking and gripping affair Israel has ever seen - the 'First Citizen' is accused of being a serial rapist.
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Screening at Folkets Bio i Lund, Malmö, Sweden during the Mediterranean Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden 2011
Mediterranean Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden 2011
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Heymann Brothers Films has been operating for over a decade and specializes in long term documentary projects with a social and political orientation, as well as very personal ones. The company was founded by Tomer Heymann, one of the leading documentary directors in Israel.
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2001 he created “It Kinda Scares Me” which won the Academy Award in Israel, and other awards in Torino, Milan, New York, Taipei and Melbourne.
In 2003 his film "Aviv - Fucked Up Generation" came out commercially and brought a vast amount of viewers to the cinemas, as it correspondingly participated in many festivals worldwide.
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TOMER HEYMANN
Tomer Heymann was born in Kfar Yedidia in Israel in 1970 and has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals including his first film “It Kinda Scares Me”. “Paper Dolls” won three awards at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival and the audience’s award at the Los Angeles Festival. The film and TV series "Bridge over the Wadi”, co-produced with the American ITVS, won the Israeli Documentary Film competition, participated in IDFA Festival's prestigious competition and won many awards around the world. Tomer's new 8-part series "The Way Home" was recently broadcasted by the Yes Doco Channel in Israel and won the best documentary series award at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival.
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BARAK HEYMANN
Barak Heymann joined the "Heymann Brothers Films" company in 2003 and has since directed and produced several documentary films and series. “Heymann Brothers Films” is an independent Israeli company dedicated to the release of documentaries on the social aspect of the Israeli/Jewish culture.
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Angelina, the first Druze woman to attempt significant steps in the Israeli fashion world, finds herself in the middle of a complicated conflict in which the tradition and values of her society clash with her brave efforts to choose her own way in life. Duah Fares, a young woman from the Druze village of Sagur in the Galilee, was one of the 12 finalists in the beauty pageant for Israeli-Arab women - ‘Lady Kul el-Arab.’ While preparing for the pageant, a special relationship develops between Duah and fashion designer Jack Yaakob. Together they go to Tel Aviv to register Duah for the general Israeli beauty contest as well. Duah breezes through the preliminary selections for the contest and changes her name to Angelina.
Lady Kul el-Arab which set out as a glamorous film about a beauty pageant, turned into a moving story of a family caught between cultures. In her fifth film, director Ibtisam Mara’ana succeeds in delicately drawing the dramatic and touching portrait of a young woman who finds herself at the heart of a struggle which fascinates the whole country.
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By AMY KRONISH
Lady Kul el-Arab, directed by Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana is the story of one young woman's pursuit of her dreams. Duah Fares is a Druze high school girl, from the town of Ramma in the Galilee. Her dream is to win the "Lady of the Arabs" local beauty pageant. She is a beautiful teenager with a lot of charm and her parents support her in her dream. After receiving training in modeling, make-up, style, she successfully reaches the stage of being a finalist in the Lady Kul el-Arab contest. But then Duah expands her horizons, changes her name to Angolina and decides that she wants to enter the Israeli beauty contest, which is a larger, national pageant, and would give her greater opportunities and exposure if she were to win. There are some difficulties, however. The Israeli pageant would force her to wear revealing clothes and to appear in public wearing a bathing suit. In addition, she is told that she must choose between the two pageants. As a result of the publicity, the family receives death threats and the religious leaders of the Druze community condemn her participation in such an event. Duah says, "They can't deny me my dream." View an on-line interview by Rosie Walunas with the filmmaker, Ibtisam Ma'arana, who grew up in a traditional family in Faradeis (an Israeli Arab town on the coast, south of Haifa). Ibtisam Ma'arana is committed "to show the reality, if it's good reality or worse reality. To make films for me is to show my society, a kind of mirror, so that we can look on ourselves and to try maybe to make a change." Another film by the same filmmaker is Three Times Divorced, about a Bedouin woman named Khitam who is fighting for custody of her children.
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Lady Kul el-Arab
Achieving a dream shared by many teenagers the world over could cost a lot for Duah Fares. Lady Kul el-Arab by Ibtisam Mara’ana follows the outraged reaction within the Arab–Israeli community when this young girl from a small village in the Galilee region decides to compete in the Miss Israel contest.
The Druze culture which Duah belongs to is part of the Islamic movement, but is also influenced by Greek philosophies and Gnosticism. However, this relative liberalism does not go so far as to allow one of its followers to dress in a bathing suit on a live TV show. What for most western girls is just a garment is profanity for Duah’s religion.
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| Written and Directed by: | Ibtisam Mra'ana |
| Producer: | Barak Heymann , Timna Goldstein-Hattav |
| Editors: | Erez Laufer, Miri Laufer |
| Cinematographer: | Ibtisam Mra'ana, Itai Raziel, Rami Katzav |
| Original Score: | Avi Belleli |
The film was supported by Channel 8 and Makor Foundation for Cinema & TV |
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