Nadia's friends [videorecording] / Maya Productions presents a film by Chanoch Zeevi ; written by Bosmat Zaidenband and Chanoch Zeevi.

Version 04.

[Israel]: Maya Productions, 2006.

1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

"Nadia and Chanoch have shared the same desk in their class in the Kfar Haroeh elementary school. In the course of their eight years together Chanoch was never conscious of the difference between them -- Chanoch, a religious Jew, born and raised in Kfar Haroeh -- the "jewel" of the religious Zionist movement -- and Nadia -- an Arab Muslim, born to the Abu-Isa family who lived (and still live) near the Kfar Haroeh village. In Nadia and Chanoch's class there were kids from all types and kinds -- Jews and Arabs, religious & non-religious, from European origin ("Ashkenazi Jews") and from North African origin ("Sephardic Jews"), kids from politically right wing and left wing families. But the Religious Zionist movement has gone a great distance since that time, when it enables Nadia and her friends to learn together in the same class. Chanoch, the director of the film, mourns the loss of the tolerance and balance that he experienced as a child, pushed aside by political and religious extremism. Going on 40, Chanoch decides to go on a journey to look for his classmates, and organizes a class reunion for the first time in thirty years. In his meetings with his class mates he realizes that almost all of them have abandoned the principles they were taught in their childhood school and chose new, different ways of life. Nadia's Friends is a film about a journey to the past, to what was once the religious Zionism and to what it is today, to old friends and to the rift that grew between them over the years." --http://www.ruthfilms.com/html/fs_nadias_friends.html

Images / Video & Film

Hebrew

December 18, 2006

Director and producer, Chanoch Zeevi; editor, Asher Tlalim, Sara Salomon; director of photography, Yoram Millo; sound track, Gil Toren; original score, Avichai Levi; research, Bosmat Zaidenband, Bati Tobolsky.