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- 2023
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
Summary Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.
Directed By: Orit Fouks Rotem
Written By: Orit Fouks Rotem
- 2023
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 31 m
Cinema Sabaya
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Summary Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.
Directed By: Orit Fouks Rotem
Written By: Orit Fouks Rotem
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Based on helmer-writer Orit Fouks Rotem’s experience as a teacher and the real women she encountered, the film is full of life, love, humor and authenticity without being didactic. At the same time, it cleverly questions the ethics and responsibility of filmmaking.
Cinema Sabaya is a beautiful model of peaceful coexistence. This is a heartwarming film that should be watched by everyone.
A wonderfully unforced, lightly intimate experience existing in a dramatic arena between observational nonfiction and bare-bones theater’s nowhere-to-go focus.
Cinema Sabaya, a quietly affecting little film about unexpected connections and unseen sorrows, shimmers with a bright optimism about how people might overlook one another’s differences if only they took a little time to learn about each other.
While the film’s narrative may run a familiar path from conflict to resolution, Rotem’s light, authentic touch makes it an engaging journey.
It’s another one of the many Israeli films over the years that emphasizes connection, accidental or forced, in the close-quarters of Palestine — Israel, the Occupied Territories, lands under the Palestinian Authority. And like most of these films, it offers a glimmer of hope, even if it’s too much to expect Orit Fouks Rotem’s film to play out as wholly neutral.
Rotem’s organic approach steers clear of icky idealism, but its conclusions nevertheless feel worn out. Talking helps, sure, but getting people in the same room is too often the stuff of fiction.
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Production Company
Green Productions,
Neon Rouge Production
Release Date Feb 10, 2023
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Website
https://www.cinemasabaya.com/
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Warsaw International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
