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2014 | Color | 89

Self Made tells the story of two women—one Israeli, the other Palestinian—who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, each finds herself living the other's life on the opposite side of the border. 


Country: Israel;
Direction: Geffen; Shira
Production: Edery; Leon, Edery; Moshe, Mandil; David
Photography: Berkovich; Ziv
Sound: Meir; Daniel, Claude; Alex
Music: Poznansky; Amit
Cast:Bakri; Ziad, Shoham; Na'ama, Liddawi; Doraid, Saraya; Samira, Adler; Sarah
Art direction: Sawat; Arad
Participation year at FICM: 2014

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Tel-Aviv, today. At her wedding reception, Keren breaks a leg. And bang goes the Caribbean honeymoon. A strange little girl comes out of the sea and follows Batya like a shadow and changes her life forever. Joy is a maid from the Philippines. She works for a tough old lady who inadvertently reconciles her with her daughter. This is a composite film, made out of the scraps of humanity that, like a message in a bottle, borders on the absurd. A portrait of a messy world in which everyone scrapes by as best they can, looking for love, for something to remember or to forget...

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