Join us for a private screening of the award winning documentary, "In Her Footsteps", followed by a Q&A Session with the filmmaker, Rana Abu Fraiha.
When: Thursday 29th November, 18:00
Where: Lightroom, dBs Berlin
RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/285564195624610/
Trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahzmPO7Q9E
In Her Footsteps وراءك
Israel 2017 | 75 minutes | Hebrew, Arabic | English subtitles
Van Leer Award for Best Director of a Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival 2017
Israel Academy Award nominee for best documentary over 60 min, 2018 (Israeli Oscar)
Best Documentary Director at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg 2018
About the film:
In the dead of night, my parents left our house in the Muslim Bedouin village, Tel Sheva, where I was born and moved (perhaps 'fled') to Omer, a nearby Jewish town where I grew up.
For more than twenty years in Omer we've been deeply integrated into Omer's white hegemony, we were convinced that we're like everyone else around us, till my mother became ill with breast cancer. She expressed an unprecedented wish, to be buried as a Muslim in the town’s Jewish cemetery.
In the Arab, Muslim and men world, where Rodina lives, women are forbidden to attend funerals. She hoped that by fulfilling her wish, her three daughters could walk with her on her last journey.
But in the Jewish society, there has never been a precedent for a shared burial of Arabs and Jews.
Her wish tore the family apart and raised serious dilemmas, about identity, belonging, femininity and the meaning of home.
About the filmmaker:
An Israeli Bedouin female director and photographer, mostly of documentary films, Rana began her studies at the Architecture Department, at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. After that she studied VideoArt and Documentary at Bezalel Academy, in the Screen Based Arts Department. Her first documentary feature, "In Her Footsteps", has screened worldwide and won several awards this past year.
Her work over the years has dealt with the complex identity that she grew up in, asking questions about what identity is, and whether it can be chosen by the individual as well as dealing with issues of gender and belonging. Today Rana also works with youth in the field of cinema and in the development of Arab and Bedouin art in Israel.