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Focus on Avigail Sperber

Halakeh | Four Entered a Grove

62 minutes

Halakeh, A young religious family is on their way to Mt. Meron for the halakeh ceremony for their three-year old son, where a boy’s hair is cut for the first time. The husband, Yoni, has become a Hassidic Breslov, while his wife Yael has remained in a more moderate branch of Judaism | Four Entered a Grove, Four men, one experience and a fate already known. An experimental film, inspired by the midrash, and taking place on a night when anything could happen

Screening in the presence of director Avigail Sperber

My Sister Banchiya | Probation Time

114 minutes

My Sister Banchiya, The story of Banchiya, a ten-year-old Ethiopian girl who immigrated to Israel and was adopted by  the Shperber family, Rabbi Daniel and Hanna. The film touches on Banchiya's struggles in a white, religious society and in a family with many children | Probation Time, Avigail, the director of this film, is dealing with a break-up from her girlfriend and with raising a child that she had with her. Her parents are dealing with her adopted sister’s damaging behavior. This is a depiction of the fragile bonds that make up a family.

The Hangman

Dir.: Natalie Braun, Avigail Sperber
| 62 minutes

The life of Shalom Nagar, Eichmann's hangman, the prison warden who was forced to do the dirty work, thus bearing a national burden that dramatically shaped his life. 

Following the screening, conversation (in Heb.) with director Ayelet Bechar

Armed

Dir.: Ayelet Bechar
| 63 minutes

Three young Jewish settler women live on West Bank hills, surrounded by disowned Palestinians, with constant tension between their femininity and the weapons they carry.

 

The Holy Closet | Gevald

67 minutes

The Holy Closet, A documentary web series on religious LGBTs, focusing on a character, couple, or family at a different stage in life and around one significant moment | Gevald, A queer musical. “Shushan”, the only queer bar in Jerusalem, is the setting for this film which takes place on an evening in November, 2006

Covered Up | Wedding Night

112 minutes

Covered Up, The personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women’s’ hair | Wedding Night, The First Night is an intimate film that takes us on a journey, capturing the time when ultra-Orthodox couples who have lived in complete separation from the opposite sex until marriage connect, marry and become husband and wife

Inbal Perlmutter - If You Let Me Go

Dir.: Sharon Luzon, Avigail Sperber
| 85 minutes

If it’s Over is a documentary about the life, work and death of Inbal Perlmutter. A local rock legend, different sex symbol, a trailblazing woman who was mysteriously killed at the age of 27.