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Levantine
She lived in Cairo, Paris and New York, but died in an old age home in Givatayim. She was admired and beautiful, but only few knew her during her life and even less after she passed away. She was the first to write of Levantine and Mizrachi identities, like no one else before her. Director Rafael Balulu goes on a journey in the footsteps of the Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff and through encounters with her elderly friends in Paris, leading intellectuals in the Mizrachi discourse in Israel and fascinating Levantine women artists, he not only draws a portrait of this impressive thinker, but also discovers the fate of Levantine identity in Israel as a cultural option of Pride And and Honor.
Festivals and Awards:
DocAviv Negev Film Festival, Israel, 2018
Director: Rafael Belulu
Producer: Yair Qedar
Production Company: Yair Qedar the Hebrews
Cinematographer: David Adika
Editor: Yoav Gershon
Soundtrack Editor: Aviv Aldema
Original Soundtrack: Amit Chai Chohen
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Avi-Chai Foundation, Gesher Film Fund, EMID, The Israel Film Service
Colourist / Online Editor: Dima Lidchiv
Visual Effects: Noa Haber
Script: Rafael Belulu
Subtitles: Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: לבנטינית
Category: Aliyah / Art and Culture / Ethnicity / Identity / Immigration / Israeli Society / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Women / Zionism
Tag Words: Aliya Cairo Givatayim Jacqueline Kahanoff Levantine Levantinit Mizrahi New York Paris Poet thinker writer
She lived in Cairo, Paris and New York, but died in an old age home in Givatayim. She was admired and beautiful, but only few knew her during her life and even less after she passed away. She was the first to write of Levantine and Mizrachi identities, like no one else before her. Director Rafael Balulu goes on a journey in the footsteps of the Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff and through encounters with her elderly friends in Paris, leading intellectuals in the Mizrachi discourse in Israel and fascinating Levantine women artists, he not only draws a portrait of this impressive thinker, but also discovers the fate of Levantine identity in Israel as a cultural option of Pride And and Honor.
Festivals and Awards:
DocAviv Negev Film Festival, Israel, 2018
Director: Rafael Belulu
Producer: Yair Qedar
Production Company: Yair Qedar the Hebrews
Cinematographer: David Adika
Editor: Yoav Gershon
Soundtrack Editor: Aviv Aldema
Original Soundtrack: Amit Chai Chohen
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Avi-Chai Foundation, Gesher Film Fund, EMID, The Israel Film Service
Colourist / Online Editor: Dima Lidchiv
Visual Effects: Noa Haber
Script: Rafael Belulu
Subtitles: Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: לבנטינית
Category: Aliyah / Art and Culture / Ethnicity / Identity / Immigration / Israeli Society / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Women / Zionism
Tag Words: Aliya Cairo Givatayim Jacqueline Kahanoff Levantine Levantinit Mizrahi New York Paris Poet thinker writer