Réal : Ada Ushpiz
Production : Ada Ushpiz (Go2Films)

About 40% of Bedouin women in the Negev live in polygamist families. The story of three such women is exposed through the lens of a Bedouin wedding photographer, who also lives in fear of her husband marrying another woman. From one wedding to another, the hardship of living under the polygamist system is revealed. Even independent, educated women find themselves « unwillingly choosing » to marry, like they say, as second, third or fourth wives. The stories of successful women, who are tempted to marry married men because of their old age, being divorced or an infatuation, show the power of a system, any system, that survives due to its victims’ cooperation.

Director/filmmaker: Ada Ushpiz
Producer/production company: Ada Ushpiz, Go2Films
Script: Ada Ushpiz
Production Company: AU Films
Co-Production Company: Ada Ushpiz
Camera: Danor Glazer
Editor: Ron Goldman
Original Music: Eli Soorani
Original Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Country of production: Israel
Country/location of film: Negev
Year: 2008
Length: 90 minutes



NAFA 2010 – The 30th Nordic Anthropological Film Association International Film Festival | 28. August – 1. September 2010 | Moesgård Museum – Århus – Danmark
* Being screened Monday 30 August at 20.00


Awards and Festivals

Awards:

Winner – DocAviv International Film festival
Winner- Israeli international Womens Film Festival
Winner- Best Cinematagrapghy, Israeli Academy Documentary awards
Festivals:
LA Israeli Film Festival, 2009

Israeli Consulate Cultural Centre, Brazil 2009

Beeld voor Beeld FF, 2009

San Fransisco Jewish Film Festival 2009

Femina Womens FF, Brazil, 2009

OnFilm festival, Northfolk, Virginia, 2009

Belfast Film Festival – Maysles Brothers Competition, 2009

Thessaloniki DocMarket 2009

Tartu Festival of Visual Cuture- Estonia, 2009

Other Israel Film Festival 2008

Israeli Women`s International FF- Israel, 2008

Watch Docs -Poland, 2008

IDFA,Docs For Sale 2008

Dok Leipzig- Germany, 2008

Docaviv – Israel, 2008

Kent University

Hebrew University

Ottawa Library

Golden Apricot – Armenia Int. Film festival, 2009

Parnu International Film Festival, 2009

Viscult Ethnograpghic FF, Iceland, 2009

Israeli Documentary Festival, Cape Town 2009

International Documentary Encounters Bogogta, Columbia, 2009

Taiwan Int. Ethnographic FF, 2009

Golden Panda Awards, 2009

CMCA Awards, Rencontres d’Averroès, 2009

1001 Documentary FF, Istanbul 2009