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By Inbar HORESH

Comedy - Development 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- ISRAEL
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Inbar HORESH
- Writer(s)
- Inbar HORESH
- Synopsis
- According to the Law of Return, Israeli citizenship is granted to persons defined as Jews under Nazi racial policy. In a fragmented society of immigrants, the fiction of being the world’s most united nation is manufactured relying not only on shared religion, but on the idea of shared trauma.
  Deceived by this notion of unity, I always felt foreign in Israel, thinking there was a togetherness I would never reach. For years, I hoped to gain my missing sense of belonging through the men I dated, but that only deepened my sense of foreignness and denied my identity as a woman.
  On a journey through landscapes and skin, Natasha feels alienated not only from the country, but from her own body. This group of strangers on a bus unites around a new instant identity, and turns into a mirror of society, where the universal need for a sense of belonging is manipulated for political purposes.
  Playing with notes of humor and irony the film invites an inner critical look at the Israeli nationalist doctrine.