Available Mar 17 to Mar 31
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Winner of five Ophir Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and Israel’s Official Submission to the 95th Academy Awards.
A group of Arab and Jewish women attend a video workshop at a small town community center run by Rona, a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to document their lives.
As each student shares footage from her home life with the others, their beliefs and preconceptions are challenged and barriers are broken down. The group comes together as mothers, daughters, wives, and women living in a world designed to keep them apart, forming an empowering and lasting bond as they learn more about each other... and themselves.
Inspired by writer/director Orit Fouks Rotem’s own experiences as a teacher, Cinema Sabaya presents a deft and heartfelt portrait of art’s capacity to unite disparate communities, moving effortlessly between the gravity of their conversations and the genuine joy generated by this unlikely group of friends.
Sponsored by Helen & Jack Rubens.
- Year2022
- Runtime92 minutes
- LanguageArabic, Hebrew w/subtitles
- CountryIsrael
- PremierePalm Beach County
- DirectorOrit Fouks Rotem
- ScreenwriterOrit Fouks Rotem
- ProducerGal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Maya Fischer
- Executive ProducerMoshe Edery Ori Eisen
- Co-ProducerAurelien Bodinaux, Rhian Vialva
- CastDana Ivgy, Aseel Farhat, Khawlah Hag-Debsy
- CinematographerItay Marom
- EditorNeta Dvorkis
- ComposerKarni Postel
- Sound DesignJulien Mizac
Available Mar 17 to Mar 31
If you would like to donate to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking here. You can also experience all the films streaming in the Festival's virtual program by purchasing an All-Access Virtual Pass by clicking here.
Winner of five Ophir Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and Israel’s Official Submission to the 95th Academy Awards.
A group of Arab and Jewish women attend a video workshop at a small town community center run by Rona, a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to document their lives.
As each student shares footage from her home life with the others, their beliefs and preconceptions are challenged and barriers are broken down. The group comes together as mothers, daughters, wives, and women living in a world designed to keep them apart, forming an empowering and lasting bond as they learn more about each other... and themselves.
Inspired by writer/director Orit Fouks Rotem’s own experiences as a teacher, Cinema Sabaya presents a deft and heartfelt portrait of art’s capacity to unite disparate communities, moving effortlessly between the gravity of their conversations and the genuine joy generated by this unlikely group of friends.
Sponsored by Helen & Jack Rubens.
- Year2022
- Runtime92 minutes
- LanguageArabic, Hebrew w/subtitles
- CountryIsrael
- PremierePalm Beach County
- DirectorOrit Fouks Rotem
- ScreenwriterOrit Fouks Rotem
- ProducerGal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Maya Fischer
- Executive ProducerMoshe Edery Ori Eisen
- Co-ProducerAurelien Bodinaux, Rhian Vialva
- CastDana Ivgy, Aseel Farhat, Khawlah Hag-Debsy
- CinematographerItay Marom
- EditorNeta Dvorkis
- ComposerKarni Postel
- Sound DesignJulien Mizac
