SHALOSH PEAMIM MEGORESHET - Three Times Divorced
by Ebtisam Mara'ana, Documentary, 75', 2007, Beta SP, ISRAËL

Khitam, a Gaza Band born Palestinian woman, was married off in an arranged match to an Israeli Arab, followed him to Israel and bore him six children. When her husband divorced her – in absentia – in the Sharia (Muslim) court, he gained custody of the children and Khitam was left with nothing. She cannot contact the children and has nos property. Although married to an Israeli, she does not have an Israeli citizenship. Now she is out on a dual battle, the most crucial of her life : against the Sharia court, and against the state, in an effort to gain a temporary permit to stay in Israël.

EBTISAM MARA’ANA
Ebtisam Mara’ana a Palestinian Israeli citizen, was born in Paradise in 1975. She graduated the school of cinema and TV at the Jewish-Arab academic center of the Givat Haviva. She directed a numbre of reports for the Feminine Outlook and Arabeska programs. Then, she made : Wake up to the Native Land (1999) and Paradise Lost who is her first fulllength film.