Iris Zaki
UK / Israel, 2015, 35’
SUNDAY / November 5th / 20:40 // Cinema Muzeul Țăranului – Romanian Premiere
| Synopsis: At “Fifi’s”, a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa, Israel, the director installs a camera over the washing-basin, where she chats with the clients she is shampooing. She thus paints an unexpected choral portrait of this space that provides temporary freedom, where Arab and Jewish women share their differences and a community of views on politics, history and love. |
Since moving to London in 2009 to study documentary filmmaking, Iris has made two artist documentaries, won a Grierson award and many international prizes and screened her films at numerous festivals and universities all over the world. In 2013 she commenced a practice-based PhD which explores her own innovative documentary filmmaking technique, focusing on closed communities. She is a guest tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
| Festivaluri over 100, among them: IDFA – ‘Best of Fests’, Netherlands, 2015 Visions du Reel, Switzerland, 2015 AFI DOCS, USA, 2015 Hamptons International FF, USA, 2015 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 2015 Haifa International FF Israel , 2015 ZagrebDox, Croatia, 2016 RIDM, Canada, 201 Viennale, Austria, 2015 DokumentArt, Germany, 2015 Films de Femmes, France, 2016 Budapest Intl. Doc FF, Hungary, 2016 Other Israel FF, USA, 2015 Watch Docs, Poland 2015 London Short, UK 2016 Stockholm Feminist Film Festival, Sweden 2016 Filmmor Women FF, Turkey 2016 Gottingen Ethnographic FF, Germany 2016 Sola Luna, Italy, 2016 EthnoFilm, Croatia, 2016 ÉCU- The European Independent FF, France, 2016 Middle East Now, Italy, 2016 Annapolis International FF, USA, 2016 Docudays UA IDFF, Ukraine, 2016 Women’s Freedom Center, USA 2016 Woman Festival, Israel, 2016 Vermont International FF, 2016 WOW – Women of the World, Folkestone UK, 2016 About Time – Leeds, UK, 2016 Films de Homem, Portugal, 2016 Barcelona international women’s FF, Spain, 2016 Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film & Media Festival, USA 2016 NAFA Film Festival, Aegean Docs, Greece, 201 Budapest International Documentary FF, Hungary, 2016 Women of Pamplona, Spain, 2016 Olhares do Mediterrâneo, Portugal, 2016 FF DMZ Docs – Korea, 2016 Sole Luna Treviso Documentary FF – Italy, 2016 WoFF: World of Film Intl. FF – Scotland, 2016 Religion Today, Italy, 2016 Women Make Waves, Taiwan, 2016 International Festival of Ethnological Film, Serbia, 2016 La Cabina, Spain, 2016 Zonta Intl. FF, Canada, 2016 Creativity for Peace, Santa Fe, USA, 2016 This Human World, Austria, 2016 IntimaLente, Italy, 2016 EASA2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures, Italy, 2016 La Rochelle Intl. FF, France, 2017 |
Premii Grierson Award for Best Student Documentary, UK 2016 Most Innovative Mid-Length Film – Visions du Reel, Switzerland, 2015 Special Jury Mention – Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 2015 Best Short Documentary – Haifa Intl. FF, Israel 2015 Best European Documentary – France, 2016 Special Jury Mention – ZagrebDox, Croatia, 2016 Audience Award –- Films de Femmes, France, 2016 Best Short Film – Jewish Motifs, Poland, 2016 Best Short Film – Filmes do Homem, Portugal 2016 Special Jury Mention – Corsica.Doc, France 2016 First Prize – FOCI Magazine competition, UK 2016 |
