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Elida Gera (; 1932,
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- May 10, 2017, Megadim) was an Israeli film director, dancer and choreographer. She is the first Israeli female film director who released a
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(, black and white, 1969). "She’s the boss. A decade of women’s movies is celebrated at the International Women’s Film Fest"
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לפני מחרבמאי: אלידע גרא › 1969 / 78 דקות / עברית, שחור-לבן, 1:1.66, 35 מ"מ
Smadar Zamir
"מדוע הושכח הסרט הראשון שביימה אישה בישראל?"
("Why was the first film directed by a woman in Israel forgotten?"), ''
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'', June 13, 2018
The second one is
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with her '' Moments'' released ten years later. Gera was born in the United States in 1931. She studied dance at
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, performed
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and later worked as
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. She became interested in cinema and studied directing and photography in Canada. There she married an Israeli artist and
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and the two had three sons. In 1964 they emigrated to Israel and settled in
Or Yehuda Or Yehuda () is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. Located in the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area, in it had a population of . History Prehistory Human settlement back to the Chalcolithic has been found on the site.International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot.


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