GUEST:

NOV 9, 7:00 pm

Ibtisam Mara'ana

Director, Lady Kul el-Arab

About the Film

Ibstisam wrote and directed, "Waking Up to a Fatherland," broadcast on Israel's Channel 2. In 2003, she wrote and directed the documentary, Paradise Lost, which was supported by the New Cinema Fund, the Tel Aviv Fund, the Makor fund, and the MEDEA project of the European Union. The film won The Best Script award for co-productions at the Spring Doc Festival, The First-Creation Photography Award at the 2003 International Spring Doc Festival, and the Documentary Award at the 2003 Women's Festival in Rehovot. She then went on to direct the documentaries, The Bridge, Badal - which won the "Spirit of Freedom" award, and The Best Documentary Award in HOTDOCS - A Room in Tel-Aviv, and Three Times Divorced - which won to the First Prize at the "Doc-Aviv" Film Festival Competition.