Raquel Chalfi

Directing

Biography

Raquel CHALFI (Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv as a director and poet. She studied theatre at Berkeley, where she won The Playwriting Award, as well as film at the American Film Institute in Hollywood. Upon her return to Israel, she started to teach at the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. Since 1975, she has published 21 volumes of poetry & one of prose, winning her the most prestigious literary awards in her country, such as the The Bialik Prize (2006), The Brenner Prize (2013) and The Dalia Ravikowich Award. Bobo and the Hairstyling Industry (1970) and Matchmakers (1971) are two of Chalfi’s early film works. Both her documentary and experimental films have been described as "going against the grain of the Israeli Film Industry". In 2019 she finished The Hidden Fountain – The World of Miriam Chalfi, a documentary made over many years, about her mother, sculptor and poet Miriam Chalfi.

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Her Dream

1987Movie

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A program on Israeli television about the tradition of matchmaking and wedding rituals and customs.

Matchmakers

1971Movie

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The little orphan-girl who survived a harsh life and finally became the sculptor-poet Miriam Chalfi - refuses to let me, her daughter, make a film about her. I finally crack the taboo - and during 24 years of work the film tries to decipher the riddle of the Hidden Fountain.

The Hidden Fountain

2019Movie

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Based on the legend of Blue Beard written by French author Charles Perrault (1628-1703), in this film adaptation however, neither the original blood nor the original murder make an appearance. These elements are replaced by a poetic research on the awareness of the death of the murderer Bluebeard and the dead women are replaced by mannequins, sometimes dragged, pushed or transported; other times, they seem to take on a life of their own.