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Hi, My name’s Rita Borodiyanski, I’m a director and screenwriter. To understand Time Out, you need to understand what it means to be the daughter of immigrants in Israel. When my parents came from Moscow they were cultured, established and well-respected. But still couldn’t find jobs in their fields of work, couldn’t get along financially or socially. They became very poor and bitter, mentally ill, and never overcame the trauma of immigration before they died. I’m the product of this. My choice to be an artist is a daily, endless struggle, a choice I’ll keep making my whole life. But it’s also the choice of the teenage girl in my story. Time Out is a portrait of girl who comes to serve at the Tul Karem border crossings just to help her parents. Her parents who were supposed to be her anchor while she intensively works hard for the feature. her parents become her nightmare. To her, serving at the crossings a way to escape her neighborhood. Words like “occupation”, “apartheid” and even “Palestinian” barely mean a thing to people who are mainly concerned with their own survival – so who could be more suited than these kids to wash the State’s dirty laundry? I’m not trying to make a film about checkpoints or the Occupation. I want to tell the story of a teenage girl becoming a woman all on her own. About the teenage girl who survives the welfare cycle, and tries to promise herself a better future. Her life is at stake and she’s willing to do anything for a life that’s even slightly better than what her parents experienced. At the border, the lines are quickly blurred, and it turns out that on both sides, there are kids who spend most of their time in a cruel struggle to survive. It’s a very important story that hasn’t been told yet. Israeli films mostly deal with war from a male perspective – nobody talks about women’s post trauma from war. I deal with women at the front lines whom nobody sees. There’s nothing heroic there. It’s everyday life. It’s a grind. It’s dirty. I’m that girl. I’m here, talking to you about my story, only thanks to the crossings. If I hadn’t enlisted to serve at the crossings, I would never have been here with you today. I think that my personal story is also the story of thousands of teenage girls from marginalized areas. The story of the sacrifice a woman makes so she can survive at a place that makes no sense. A place where in order to save herself, someone else must pay.
Country: Israel
Webpage: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8023958/
Screenwriter, Director, Casting Agent, nominated for the Israeli academy awards. Rita was born and raised in Acre at the north of Israel, she graduated from camera obscure film school in Tel-Aviv. During film school, she produced the short film "The Operator" (Tribeca 2016) and directed two short student films "Till Cash Do Us Part” (2018, Best Short winner at the LA Comedy Festival) and "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God" (2019, screened at Sguardi Altrove in Italy among others). "Checkpoint" (2022), the short film, is her first independent fiction short after her film studies. In development: Her debut feature film “Checkpoints” received development support from the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, won award at the international pitching forum in Haifa Film Festival; and was chosen to take part at the Gesher Foundation's and the Director's Guild's residency in Kibbutz Lotan. was selected to “sam Spiegel lab” workshop in Israel. She is working with script editor, Shuki Ben-Naim (HBO's “Our Boys”). “Queen of the Market”, her second feature film in development, won three awards at the Haifa Film Festival International Pitching Forum, and was selected to the “Produire Au Sud” workshop in Israel. Currently, Rita is working on a television series, Crossing the Line, for Kan 11, the international production company Ananey Communications.
A portrait of a young woman from a struggling household, who serves as a soldier...
