Lady Kul El-Arab – FESCH.TV

Lady Kul El-Arab & FESCH.TV:

Best Documentary – ZagrebDox
Special Mention – IDFA
Best Documentary – Mediterranean Film Festival

Duah Fares, a young woman from the Druze village of Sagur in the Galilee, was one of 12 finalists in the beauty pageant for Israeli-Arab women – ‘Lady Kul el-Arab.’ While Duah is preparing for the pageant, a warm relationship develops between her and fashion designer Jack Yaakob. Together they go to Tel Aviv to register Duah for the general Israeli beauty contest as well. Duah breezes through the preliminary selections for the contest and changes her name to Angelina.
Lady Kul el-Arab which begins as a glamorous film about a beauty pageant, turnes into the moving story of a family caught between cultures. In her fifth film director Ibtisam Mara’ana succeeds in delicately drawing the dramatic and touching portrait of a young woman who finds herself at the heart of a struggle which fascinates the whole country.

Director: Ibtisam Mara’ana
Producers: Barak Heymann, Timna Goldstein-Hattav
Cinematographers: Ibtisam Mara’ana, Itai Raziel, Rami Katzav
Editors: Erez Laufer, Miri Laufer
Original Score: Avi Belleli
Production Company: Heymann Brothers Films

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