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As time draws closer towards the jail release of her violent husband, Kifaya Ayati, a resident of Acre, who has been brutally attacked several times, is looking for a way to survive. She paints women who have been abused and murdered by their spouses and meets their sisters, mothers and daughters. Every meeting becomes a portrait of a murdered woman and an indictment against Israeli society, the police and the courts.
Festivals and Awards:
Best Documentary Film Award - Haifa International Film Festiva, Israel, 2021
Director: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
Producer: Yael Kipper
Cinematographer: Ronen Zaretzky
Editor: Tor Ben Mayor
Soundtrack Editor: Rotem Dror
Original Soundtrack: Shiran Karni, Regev Baruch
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, KAN 11 - Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Makan 33, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Galil Cinema Project
Script: Ronen Zaretzky, Yael Kipper, Kafaya Ayiti
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Film Name in Hebrew: דיוקן
Category: Borders and Periphery / Family / Israeli Society / Women
Tag Words: Abuse Acre Arab minority art Court domestic violence jail Kifaya Ayati murder Painting police survival
As time draws closer towards the jail release of her violent husband, Kifaya Ayati, a resident of Acre, who has been brutally attacked several times, is looking for a way to survive. She paints women who have been abused and murdered by their spouses and meets their sisters, mothers and daughters. Every meeting becomes a portrait of a murdered woman and an indictment against Israeli society, the police and the courts.
Festivals and Awards:
Best Documentary Film Award - Haifa International Film Festiva, Israel, 2021
Director: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
Producer: Yael Kipper
Cinematographer: Ronen Zaretzky
Editor: Tor Ben Mayor
Soundtrack Editor: Rotem Dror
Original Soundtrack: Shiran Karni, Regev Baruch
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, KAN 11 - Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Makan 33, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Galil Cinema Project
Script: Ronen Zaretzky, Yael Kipper, Kafaya Ayiti
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Film Name in Hebrew: דיוקן
Category: Borders and Periphery / Family / Israeli Society / Women
Tag Words: Abuse Acre Arab minority art Court domestic violence jail Kifaya Ayati murder Painting police survival
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