''Flawless'' (, ''Haneshef'', 'The Prom') is a 2018 Israeli

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon. In July 2018, it was one of five films nominated for the

Ophir Award The Ophir Awards (), full name: the Israel Film Academy Award, sometimes also known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Tele ...

for Best Picture, and led the industry with a record of twelve total nominations, of which it won four awards. ''Flawless'' was the first film in the history of Israeli cinema for which a

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

woman,

Stav Strashko Stav Strashko (; born September 24, 1992) is an Israeli model and actress. She is most noted for her performance in the 2018 film '' Flawless'', for which she became the first openly transgender actress ever to receive an Ophir Award nomination fo ...

, was nominated for the Best Actress award.

Plot

Three unpopular high school student girls in Jerusalem decide to travel to Kyiv to get plastic surgery, hoping this will change their lives for the better and help them find their dream dates for the prom. On their way, Tigist and Keshet discover that Eden has her own reasons to embark on this journey.

Cast

as Eden * Netsanet Mekonnen as Mika * as Keshet *

Asi Levi Osnat "Asi" Levi (; born September 28, 1969) is an Israeli Film Academy Award winning actress. Career Levi attended and graduated the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio in southern Tel Aviv. Levi's early appearances include films such as ...

as Keren *

Yehonatan Vilozny Yehonatan Vilozny (; born 9 December 1995) is an Israeli film, television and stage actor. Early life He was born and raised in Tel Aviv in Israel. His father Shmuel Vilozny, is an actor and married to Yehonatan's mother, Iris. He also has three ...

as Maayan * Niv Sultan as Avigail

References

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* 2018 films 2018 drama films 2018 LGBTQ-related films 2010s teen drama films Israeli teen drama films Israeli LGBTQ-related films 2010s Hebrew-language films 2010s LGBTQ-related drama films Films about trans women Films about proms Films about plastic surgery Films set in Jerusalem Films set in Kyiv {{2010s-drama-film-stub