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International Women’s Film Festival begins this week in Rechovot

Posted on August 31, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
Category: Art and Culture Leave a Comment

This Wednesday is the beginning of the International Women’s Film Festival in Rechovot, Israel. The theme this year is passion and its expression in movies.

Should this post be called, “Chick flick alert”? Well, lets see some of the movies being shown over the course of the four-day festival.

At the gala opening Waitress will be featured. It is a movie about an unhappy pregnant restaurant worker in the U.S.A. This is the last film by Adrienne Shelly before her murder last November.

Don’t Tell my Mother, by Moon Howe is about her work as an exotic dancer and how she decided to discontinue this professional pursuit. One of the issues raised in the film is women’s quest for male approval and specifically how it affects relationships between women.

And an example of an Israeli film being screened? Three Mothers, by Dina Zvi-Riklis is about female triplets born to Jewish parents in Egypt and their family’s move to Israel as teenagers. This film was nominated for many awards at the Israeli equivalent of the Academy Awards, Ophirs. It also won prizes at the 2006 Jerusalem Film Festival.

I still can’t answer my chick-flick question because I’m a chick and I studied in Rechovot and those two things endear this film festival to me. It sounds like good times, if you ask me. Oh, maybe that is the answer.

More information at the festival’s homepage.

Nathan Burnstein, “Film Festival: Women in the picture”, The Jerusalem Post, August 30, 2007.