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Women/Pioneers

The women pioneers who came here a century ago wanted to build a new world and create a new woman, just as independent as men.

A few dozen of these women established Ein Harod. Writing about themselves and their world, they described their fight for equality and protested against how they were silenced. They struggled against the constraints of the traditional world they came from and the way men interpreted the world that they created.

They lived passionately and experienced many painful failures. In the end, they abandoned their struggle as women to focus on achieving the dream that they shared with men–the dream of creating a new nation. Women/Pioneers tells the story of their turbulent lives through the journals they wrote, which provide a new perspective on archival materials from that time.

Festivals and Awards:

Best Documentary Film Award, International Women's Film Festival, Rehovot 2013; Best Research Award;  DocAviv Festival, 2013;  Boston Jewish Film Festival, 2013; New York Jewish Film Festival, 2014;  Washington Jewish Film Festival, 2014

Director: Michal Aviad

Producer: Edna Kowarsky & Elinor Kowarsky

Production Company: Eden Productions, in co-production with The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives Of The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem And The World Zionist Organization

Cinematographer: Archive

Editor: Erez Laufer

Original Soundtrack: Aviv Aldema

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television

Script: Era Lapid & Michal Aviad

Subtitles: English

Film Name in Hebrew: החלוצות

The women pioneers who came here a century ago wanted to build a new world and create a new woman, just as independent as men.

A few dozen of these women established Ein Harod. Writing about themselves and their world, they described their fight for equality and protested against how they were silenced. They struggled against the constraints of the traditional world they came from and the way men interpreted the world that they created.

They lived passionately and experienced many painful failures. In the end, they abandoned their struggle as women to focus on achieving the dream that they shared with men–the dream of creating a new nation. Women/Pioneers tells the story of their turbulent lives through the journals they wrote, which provide a new perspective on archival materials from that time.

Festivals and Awards:

Best Documentary Film Award, International Women's Film Festival, Rehovot 2013; Best Research Award;  DocAviv Festival, 2013;  Boston Jewish Film Festival, 2013; New York Jewish Film Festival, 2014;  Washington Jewish Film Festival, 2014

Director: Michal Aviad

Producer: Edna Kowarsky & Elinor Kowarsky

Production Company: Eden Productions, in co-production with The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives Of The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem And The World Zionist Organization

Cinematographer: Archive

Editor: Erez Laufer

Original Soundtrack: Aviv Aldema

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television

Script: Era Lapid & Michal Aviad

Subtitles: English

Film Name in Hebrew: החלוצות

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