Directing
Rita Borodiyanski
Born
1990-11-01 (36)
Place of birth
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Known for
Directing
Credits
3 titles
Director, screenwriter and casting director. Two-time nominee of the Ophir Awards. Her short film, “TIME OUT”, won the L.A Holly Shorts Best Thriller Award and was nominated for an Ophir Award. Today, Rita is about to start filming her debut full feature film “YOUNG MOTHER” – which won grants and awards and was developed at the Nantes Film Workshop (France). “CHECKPOINTS”, full length film, has won various awards -Haifa Film Festival, Cyprus ME Film Festival, WIFTI International and Sam Spiegel Film Lab, as well as receiving the Rabinovitch Fund development grant.
Known for
NRPortrait of a girl from a poor family, who takes care of her parents while serving in the army at the crossings of Tul-Karm. When something bad happens at home and she has to go back, she grabs Saila, a girl from Tul-Karm just to go home.
Time Out
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Checkpoints is a portrait of a young Israeli woman, the daughter of first-generation immigrants, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and decides to complete her army service in the Tulkarm checkpoints in order to qualify for the bonus release grant - with which she could both support her parents and fulfil her boyfriend’s dream of starting a new life in Miami. But somehow, against all odds, it is in the hellish reality of the West Bank checkpoints that she is exposed to an alternate life, and begins to follow her own dreams.
Checkpoints
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Behind the camera
NRPortrait of a girl from a poor family, who takes care of her parents while serving in the army at the crossings of Tul-Karm. When something bad happens at home and she has to go back, she grabs Saila, a girl from Tul-Karm just to go home.
Time Out
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NRPortrait of a girl from a poor family, who takes care of her parents while serving in the army at the crossings of Tul-Karm. When something bad happens at home and she has to go back, she grabs Saila, a girl from Tul-Karm just to go home.
Time Out
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Checkpoints is a portrait of a young Israeli woman, the daughter of first-generation immigrants, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and decides to complete her army service in the Tulkarm checkpoints in order to qualify for the bonus release grant - with which she could both support her parents and fulfil her boyfriend’s dream of starting a new life in Miami. But somehow, against all odds, it is in the hellish reality of the West Bank checkpoints that she is exposed to an alternate life, and begins to follow her own dreams.
Checkpoints
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