''Lady Kul El-Arab'' is a 2008
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
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documentary directed by
Ibtisam Mara'ana
Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin ( ar, ابتسام مراعنة منوحين, he, אִבְּתִיסָאם מַרְאַעְנֶּה־מְנוֹחִין) is an Israeli Arab politician, film director, and producer. She was a member of the Knesset for the ...
which tells the story of
Doaa "Angelina" Fares, a
Druze model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure.
Models c ...
who entered the Miss Israel
beauty contest
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
in 2007. This caused some resentment from Israel's Druze community, and she dropped out of the contest following
death threats
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behaviour, in which case a deat ...
against her for dishonouring her community and the subsequent arrest of five people, among them two of her uncles, for
planning her murder.
Awards
* ''2009
ZagrebDox
ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival taking place in Zagreb every year, in late February / early March. Launched in 2005, the festival is intended to provide audiences and experts insight into recent documentary films, stimulate ...
'' - International Competition Award
* ''2008 New Delhi International Women Film Festival'' - Best Director Award
* ''2008
IDFA Silver Wolf Competition'' - Special Jury Award
External links
*
Contestant No. 2 (US Version broadcast on PBS)
Israeli documentary films
2008 films
Documentary films about violence against women
Israeli Druze
2008 documentary films
Violence against women in Israel
Druze culture
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