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No More Flowers

VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED
VALERIA MITHATENET

• Director: Michal Vinik
• ISRAEL, UKRAINE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 76’ / Hebrew; Turkish,  English s.t.

• Screenplay: Michal Vinik
• Director of Photography: Guy Raz
• Editing: Maya Kenig
• Music: Daphna Keenan
• Cast: Lena Fraifeld, Dasha Tvoronovich, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Avraham Shalom Levi
• Producer: Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel
• Production Co.: Lama Films
• World Sales: m-appeal

2022 Antalya Special Jury Award
2022 Haifa Best Israeli Feature, Best Screenplay
2022 ThessalonikiSilver Alexander–Meet the Neighbors

Michal Vinik’s second feature film Valeria Is Getting Married had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti Extra section. Valeria, a young Ukrainian woman, arrives in Israel to meet her future husband, for an arranged marriage brokered online. She joins her sister Christina, who has been living in Israel for some time and who has met her own husband through a similar arrangement. Life in Israel is great for Christina and her husband, and they want the same for her sister. However, Valeria is different from her sister. Against expectations, the two sisters must each make a decision for themselves. ‘I have come to realise that my interest mostly has to do with how these relationships serve as a mirror for all committed relationships between any two people, whether married or not,’ says director Michal Vinik.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.