Boy Meets Girl ( Ben Loke'ah Bat) is a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.
The film is named after a dance game of the same name. The film explores the conflicts between the contrasting cultures of that time in Israeli society, where kibbutzim still held a key canonical role. It examines the relationship between the urban outsider and the kibbutz native, highlighting the differences and tensions between them.
The plot is a semi-autobiographical account of Bat-Adam’s own upbringing at a kibbutz boarding school.Amy Kronish (1 March 2009), "Filmmakers, Israeli", Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Jewish Women's Archive (retrieved 10 November 2012). Her 1994 film, Aya: Imagined Autobiography (), revisits the character of Aya, who is now a married woman haunted by her past.
Plot Aya (Einat Helfman) is a shy 10-year-old girl who has grown up in Tel Aviv. When her parents, who are both doctors, travel to Thailand as part of their work, Aya is placed in a boarding school on a kibbutz. As an outsider, she has difficulty adjusting to the insularity and unfamiliar values and practices of kibbutz society. She struggles to cope with the challenges of living with dozens of her peers in a communal children's dormitory where there is no separation according to gender.
Cast Einat Helfman as Aya as Ina as Aya's father Shai Golan as Zvika Gill Dontchevzky as Neni Ayala Fiszel as Hanna's Mother Erella Ashkenazi as Teacher Andrea Sade as English Teacher Dina Limon as Teacher Assaf Zur as Giora Osnat Farago as Hanna Eyal Fox as Dodo Boaz Rekiewicz as Roni Amalya Dayan as Amalya
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