Nadia's Friends (2006)

Original title

Ha-Haverim Shel Nadia

Directed by

Chanoch Ze'evi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 04m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker reunites his elementary school classmates from a religious Zionist village in Israel. He travels across the country to see how their lives have changed and to reflect on the evolution of Zionism since his own childhood.

reflectivepersonalexploratorynostalgiccontemplativeobservationalgroundedmixed-toned

What happens

Nadia's Friends is a 2006 Israeli documentary film which follows filmmaker Chanoch Zeevi as he travels through Israel exploring how Zionism has evolved since he was a child. Zeevi attended elementary school in the religious Zionist village of Kfar Haroeh, where his classmates represented a cross-section of Israeli society. They included Jews of every background: Ashkenazi, Sephardi, religious, secular, and even one Arab girl —Nadia, for whom the film is named. Now, more than twenty-five years after graduating from elementary school, Zeevi has organized a class reunion that brings together men and women whose lives have diverged from the original journey begun in Kfar Haroeh. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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