VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED

VALERIA MITHATENET

By Michal VINIK

THE ISRAEL FILM FUND - as FIN

Drama - Completed 2022

The precarity of international arranged marriages propels director Michal Vinik’s provocative drama, as a Ukrainian bride’s efforts to successfully marry off her sister to an Israeli man backfire with devastating results.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022
Contemporary World Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • HEBREW, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 76 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michal VINIK
    • Writer(s)
    • Michal VINIK
    • Producer(s)
    • Ayelet KAIT, Amir HAREL
    • Synopsis
    • Valeria, a young Ukrainian woman, arrives in Israel to meet her future husband, for an arranged marriage brokered online. She joins Christina, who has been living in Israel for some time and met her own husband through a similar arrangement. Christina is happy with her new life and wants the same for her sister, but over the course of the day doubts begin to appear.