Screening of Nazareth Cinema Lady at the Haifa IFF 2015
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Screening of Nazareth Cinema Lady at the Haifa IFF 2015
The film portrays the story of Safaa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, struggling to fulfill her dream of personal independence and to establish a cinematheque in Nazareth, the first of its kind for the Arab population in Israel. Safaa’s father and husband both died while she was still a young mother of two boys and she chose to take charge of her own fate and establish the cinematheque.
Filmography: With all Your Soul (2007), Covenant (Brit): On Women, God and What’s in Between (2005), Red Sea – The End (2003), Srange to be a Simple Woman – Zelda (1999).
Nazareth Cinema Lady, Director: Nurit Jacobs-Yinon, 53 min.