Dimona Twist (2016)
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Country:
Israel
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Duration:
71 min
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Genre:
history
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Director:
Michal Aviad
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Producer:
Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel
About film
Seven women arrive in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a town recently established and not yet populated. In the film, they share stories about their childhood, their journey, and their relationships with the country and its culture.
Rewards and nominations
- Jerusalem Film Festival 2016 (Israel) — Best Documentary
Director
was born in 1955, director, scriptwriter, and producer. She studied film at San Francisco State University. Her debut film Acting Our Age was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival in 1987. In 2011 she filmed Invisible about a serial rapist in Tel Aviv in the late 1980s. The film won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlinale Panorama in 2011. Aviad received the Mifal HaPais Landau Awards for Arts and Sciences in 2019 for her contribution to the Israeli cinema. Aviad is the senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv University.
Trailer
Director
was born in 1955, director, scriptwriter, and producer. She studied film at San Francisco State University. Her debut film Acting Our Age was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival in 1987. In 2011 she filmed Invisible about a serial rapist in Tel Aviv in the late 1980s. The film won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlinale Panorama in 2011. Aviad received the Mifal HaPais Landau Awards for Arts and Sciences in 2019 for her contribution to the Israeli cinema. Aviad is the senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv University.