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Country: Israel
T-Port Partner: Minshar School of Art
Born in Israel in a religious extremist community - Left the community at age 18 when they wanted to arrange her marriage - Graduated in 2024 from the Cinema Department at Minshar College in Tel Aviv - In 2020, created her first short film "KERA" as an end-of-year college project - Won best short film in Israel from a TikTok competition and was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival in the short film competition in partnership with TikTok
A personal documentary following her journey as a filmmaker who broke away from her ultra-Orthodox Jewish world. The film documents her return to her sister's wedding after years of estrangement, capturing through her lens the complex family dynamics where she is viewed as the "bad sister" whose choice to leave religion affected her sister's marriage prospects and impacted the family's foundations.
Blumi" follows a 17-year-old ultra-Orthodox girl during her daily bus rides between Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, where women are required to sit in the back, separated from men. From her restricted position, Blumi develops an ambiguous relationship with Avichai (45), the secular bus driver, opening a window into a world beyond her strictly regulated life. Shot entirely within the confines of a public bus, the film explores themes of boundaries, freedom, and control in Israeli society through the eyes of a young woman discovering her voice. Through Blumi's journey, we witness how boundaries can simultaneously protect and restrict, and how true freedom begins with defining one's own limits