122:. She graduated in literature and philosophy from Tel Aviv University. In 1984, she received a Master of Film from San Francisco State University. Between 1981 and 1990 she lived and worked in San Francisco where she made her first film. She is a senior lecturer at the department of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University. Aviad's films bring to light the complex relationships between women issues and other major social-political issues such as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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this documentary made of archives, uncovers the passion, struggle and pain of women pioneers who came to
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Invisible was part of more than 30 festivals across the globe, was theatrically exhibited in New York, Israel and France and has received the
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Evgenia Dodina star in this story where two women are brought together over a shared trauma; they were both victims of a serial rapist twenty years earlier. Their characters are fictional but the rapist is real, having raped 16 women and girls in
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Documentary at The Jerusalem Film Festival.
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Maternite Comme Attitude Oppositionelle : sur Pour Mes Enfants (2002) de Michal Aviad. In Euvrard Janine (ed.) Israeliens, Palestiniens que Peut le Cinema? Paris: Editions Michalon. (pp:
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Intifada. The film is co-produced with Israel and
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