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CINEMA SABAYA

סינמה סבאיא

By Orit FOUKS ROTEM

GREEN PRODUCTIONS - as PROD / FIN

Female director - Completed 2021

Nine women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, a young filmmaker. With each footage shot by the women, the group dynamic forces them to challenge their beliefs as they get to know each other.

Festivals
& Awards

Jerusalem FF 2021
Best Debut Film
Jerusalem FF 2021
Audience Choice Award
Warsaw FF 2021
International Competition
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Female director, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • HEBREW, ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Orit FOUKS ROTEM
    • Producer(s)
    • Gal GREENSPAN (Green Productions), Roi KURLAND (Green Productions), Maya FISCHER (Green Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • A group of women, Arab and Jewish municipality employees, gather once a week to take part of a video workshop enrichment program, part of their mandatory reward training-grant. Rona (34) a fledgling film director and the leader of the group, teaches the women how to document their lives.
      The movie takes place almost entirely within the four walls of a classroom in the Co-Existence Center, located in one of Israel’s more peripheral areas; while the external world, outside the classroom, is manifested in the homemade footage shot by the women.
      The women start out as strangers to one another, but during the meetings they begin to open up to each other, more and more; and Rona asks them about their dreams and urges them to take a look at their lives. The group becomes a source of solace and support, an encounter they all yearn for, a meeting they’re eager to attend every week. With the help of the video cameras, they expose themselves in front of the others; expose their secrets, their joys, their dreams and their fears.
      Rona, the workshop instructor, films the meetings-- enchanted by the women and by the effect and dynamism of their encounters-- and starts fantasizing about making an actual film from the scenes playing out right in front of her eyes. She shares her idea with one of the participants', who, in turn, explains to her that there’s no chance the women would agree to expose themselves in such a public way. Yet she keeps fantasizing and filming.
      As the workshop moves forward, the assignments that Rona gives them invite the women to keep revealing themselves and touch on the volatile question of boundaries in their lives. Finally, after one of the participants goes through a dramatic experience, Rona to will learn to recognize her own boundaries as well.
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