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Kosher Beach
It’s only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv’s shore. But for the women going there it’s light years away. “The Kosher Beach” is a gated and secluded 100 meter-long strip of beach with dedicated days for women and men to bath separately, only a wooden fence separates between the freedom of the gay beach and them.
The “Brave Bunch”, a secret female orthodox sisterhood, arrive to what is a source of quiet sanity for them and they consider it a safe haven away from social and family problems: their own private and free heaven. Here they can be themselves, take a deep ocean breath and open their hearts to the sea, until the day the Rabbi’s try to close the beach. What will the girls do? Will they give in or fight?
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2019
Director: Karin Kainer
Producer: Levi Zini, Karin Kainer, Avishai Peretz
Production Company: Docfilms, Karin Kainer Films
Cinematographer: Karin Kainer, Einav Goodman Giat, Ynon Slutzky, Roee Farag, Tal Mor
Editor: Yael Leibovitz
Soundtrack Editor: Ophir Lokay Eliassaf
Original Soundtrack: Erez Russo
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Hot 8, Hartley Film Foundation, Mifal Hapyis, CoPro
Musicians: Theme Song: Shiri Maimon
Script: Karin Kainer
Distributor: GO2FILMS
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Film Name in Hebrew: החוף הנפרד
It’s only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv’s shore. But for the women going there it’s light years away. “The Kosher Beach” is a gated and secluded 100 meter-long strip of beach with dedicated days for women and men to bath separately, only a wooden fence separates between the freedom of the gay beach and them.
The “Brave Bunch”, a secret female orthodox sisterhood, arrive to what is a source of quiet sanity for them and they consider it a safe haven away from social and family problems: their own private and free heaven. Here they can be themselves, take a deep ocean breath and open their hearts to the sea, until the day the Rabbi’s try to close the beach. What will the girls do? Will they give in or fight?
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2019
Director: Karin Kainer
Producer: Levi Zini, Karin Kainer, Avishai Peretz
Production Company: Docfilms, Karin Kainer Films
Cinematographer: Karin Kainer, Einav Goodman Giat, Ynon Slutzky, Roee Farag, Tal Mor
Editor: Yael Leibovitz
Soundtrack Editor: Ophir Lokay Eliassaf
Original Soundtrack: Erez Russo
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Hot 8, Hartley Film Foundation, Mifal Hapyis, CoPro
Musicians: Theme Song: Shiri Maimon
Script: Karin Kainer
Distributor: GO2FILMS
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Film Name in Hebrew: החוף הנפרד