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A Film by Hen Lasker
(Israel, 2007, 63 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles)

“My Mom always says that my military service is to blame for everything that has happened to her little girl."
Seven years after completing an IDF course for female combat soldiers, the director returns to the place where, for the first time, she fell in love with a woman – her commanding officer. Over the course of 66 days and nights, the film follows the girls in one of the IDF’s most rigorous combat courses and looks at the relationships that develop between girls in an environment subject to strict military code.
The film reveals the mechanism that enables the transformation of 18-year-old girls from daddy's little girls into fierce disciplined soldiers. Through the intimate relationship that develops between the director and one of the characters, questions about identity, sexuality and the discovery of femininity surface.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Doctape Award - Special Jury Mention – RIDM - Les Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, 2008
The Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2007
The International Women's Film Festival, Israel, 2007
Rosh Pina TV Festival, 2007
International Women's Film Festival Dortmund, "Queer Looks" platform, 2008
Brooklyn International Film Festival, 2008
NewFest - New York LGBT Film Festival, 2008
OutFest - Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2008
Monterrey International Film Festival - Social Vision Showcase, Mexico 2008
Moviemento & City-Kino Film Festival, 2008
Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2008
MiradasDoc (DOCOSUR), Spain 2008
Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2008
Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, 2008
Festival Mix Brasil, 2008
São Paulo International Film Festival, 2008
Les Ecrans Documentaires, 2008
Kulturkreis DAS ZENTRUM Radstadt, 2008
EntreVues, Belfort International Film Festival, 2008
RKF Film Festival; Rome-Milan-Trieste, 2008
WorldFilm-Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, 2009
Singapore Indie Doc Fest, 2009
Verzaubert FilmFest – Berlin, 2009
NY Jewish LGBTQ Film Festival, 2009
Sofia International Film Festival, 2009
International Gay-Lesbian Festival for Audio-Visual Art of Andalusia, 2009
New Zealand's Out Takes Film Festival, 2009
Inside Out Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival, 2009
Frameline33, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, 2009
Asian Queer Film Festival, 2009
Michigan Women's Music Festival, 2009
Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, 2009
New Directions in Documentary Film Festival & Symposium, 2009
The Paris LGBT Film Festival "Cheries-Cheris", 2009
TV SCREENINGS
Channel 2, Israel
Humanistische Omroep, The Netherlands
ITVS - USA
YLE, Finland
SBS, Australia
The Documentary Channel, USA
RTSI-TELEVISIONE SVIZZERA di lingua italiana, Switzerland
Price Valid for DVD screening only
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