Boy Meets Girl
Theatrical poster
Directed byMichal Bat-Adam
Screenplay byMichal Bat-Adam
Produced byAvi Kleinberger
Gideon Amir
StarringGabi Eldor
Ilan Dar
Shai Golan
CinematographyNurith Aviv
Edited byHagit Hanin
Lena Kadish
Music byNurit Hirsch
Release date
July 1982
Running time
85 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew

Boy Meets Girl (Hebrew: בן לוקח בת Ben Loke'ah Bat) is a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.

The story is a semi-autobiographical account of Bat-Adams' own upbringing at a kibbutz boarding school.[1] Her 1994 film, Aya: Imagined Autobiography (Hebrew: איה), revisits the character of Aya, who is now a married woman haunted by her past.

Plot

Aya (Einat Helfman) is a shy 10-year-old girl who has grown up in Tel Aviv. When her parents, who are both doctors, travel to Thailand as part of their work, Aya is placed in a boarding school on a kibbutz. As an outsider, she has difficulty adjusting to the insularity and unfamiliar values and practices of kibbutz society. She struggles to cope with the challenges of living with dozens of her peers in a communal children's dormitory where there is no separation according to gender.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Amy Kronish (1 March 2009), "Filmmakers, Israeli", Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Jewish Women's Archive (retrieved 10 November 2012).

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Michal Bat-Adam
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