Shadya
Sunday, March 30 • 12:45 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
New Jersey Premiere
A spirited Israeli-Arab girl challenges her traditional Muslim lifestyle by fighting to become a World Karate Champion. Shadya’s conflict as an Israeli-Arab and an Arab woman emerges when she meets the Palestinian karate team and marries at the peak of her career.
“SHADYA is a compassionate, painfully honest exploration of the evolution of a young Israeli- Arab woman with feminist ideals in a male dominated culture set against the backdrop of the Palestinian Israeli conflict”. - Ruth Fremson, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner
Director: Roy Westler
Country: Israel
Year: 2005
Length: 52 minutes
Format: Beta Sp
Language: Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles