In the Director's Chair Sits a Woman

Israeli Documentaries Competition

  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Smadar Zamir
  • Israel 2020
  • 58 minutes
  • Hebrew
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Produced with the support of Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Rabinovich Foundation - Cinema Project, Bouras - House for Independent Art, Kivunim - Beer Sheva, Cinema South Festival - Sapir Academic College

 

26 women who directed narrative feature films in Israel are sharing their own personal experience of sitting in the Director’s Chair. From Ellida Geyra – Israel’s first female fiction filmmaker, to present-day female directors – they echo each other, clash and come apart, only to reconnect againTheir stories create a diverse and cinematic  patchwork quilt of female directors, providing us with a multifaceted reflection of any woman who wishes for her story to be heard

Feature-Length Debut

 

Video talk with the director


  • Director Smadar Zamir
  • Production Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg
  • Script Smadar Zamir, Noy Barak, Itamar Alcalay
  • Cinematography Adi Mozes, Ran Aviad
  • Editing Noy Barak
  • Music Noga Rotem
  • Sound Design Shahaf Wagshall
  • Source Daroma Productions