• Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Lina Chaplin
  • Israel 2019
  • 53 minutes
  • Hebrew, Russian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

When fans of the football club of Beitar Jerusalem make their way to Teddy Stadium, they hardly ever notice Nadia as she enters and makes her way to a classical ballet studio beneath the bleachers. The ceiling trembles, the cheering fills the room, but the studio remains isolated from Jerusalem’s reality.

A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide.  Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.

Filmography: Eighty and Counting (2016), Paper Show (2002), Trumpet in the Vadi (2001). 


  • Director Lina Chaplin
  • Production Daniela Reiss Razon
  • Script Lina Chaplin and Bracha Zisman Cohen
  • Cinematography Itzik Portal
  • Editing Bracha Zisman Cohen
  • Sound Design Rotem Dror
  • Music A. Glaznov, Ludwig Minkus, Adolf Adam, Tomazo Albinoni, dmitri shostakovich, A. Krane, Claude Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Boris Asspaiev,Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cezar Antonowicz Cui, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard Grieg, Phillip Glass, Alfred Snitke, Bock Jerry, Kirill Molchanov
  • Source Daniela Reiss Razon
  • Produced with support by Hot 8, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv