A Whore Like Me

A Film By Yael Shachar & Sharon Yaish
Best Short Documentary Film
Ophir Winner (Israeli Oscar)
2019
Winner Best Documentary (60 min long)
Israel Documentary Film Awards
Israel
Official Selection
Docaviv Film Festival
Israel 2019
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Storyline

Chile was kidnapped from a pub in Hungary and sold to a group of Israeli sex traffickers. Today, twenty years later, Chile is a different woman, one who has managed to get out of the drug abuse cycle, celebrating 10 years of sobriety, and volunteering at the Levinsky Clinic to try and help women on the street. When the Ministry of Interior in Israel refuses to give Chile a resident certificate and to believe that she is a victim of trafficking in women, she goes looking for her kidnappers to obtain proof. The journey to the past forces Chile to return to the scene of prostitution, only this time with a little more power and a camera in hand. Chile begins to document and work through the trauma, but can you go back to your most painful place and stay alive?
Ophir Winner (Israeli Oscar winner best Documentary 2019)

Cast

Chile Ezra

Crew

Producers
Haggai Arad & Elad Peleg
Screenwriter
Yael Shachar & Sharon Yaish
Cinematographer
Yael Shachar
Editor
Sharon Yaish
Music
Haim Frank Ilfman
Sound Designer
Ronen Nagel

Events

Israel 2019, 59 minutes

Language

✦ Hebrew & Hungarian

Subtitles

✦ English

Awards

✦ Ophir Winner (Israeli Oscar winner best Documentary 2019
✦ Winner Best Documentary film (60 min long) - The Documentary Forum in Israel

Festivals

✦ Docaviv Film Festival, Israel 2019
✦ Reel Israel Documentary Film Festival, Israel
✦ Women Texas Film Festival
✦ Los Angeles Women in Film Festival
✦ Imagine This Women's International Film Festival
✦ Jewish Film Festival-Budapest, Hungary

Broadcasters and Funds

✦ Yes Docu
✦ The New Fund for Cinema and T.V.
✦ Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts

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