“Would You Have Sex With an Arab?” – This is the question director Yolande Zauberman asks the subjects of her 2011 documentary, based on a script she wrote with Lebanese-French author Selim Nassib. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival and it strives to examine questions of coexistence.
The film takes us to bars & streets of night-time Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The director chose to interview night party people, assuming they will be more honest than “day people”. Time after time the question catches the passersby off guard. Some have never thought about the issue, others have. Most are surprised by their own reaction to the question, and so answers evolve and change during the film. Same question is also presented to Israeli Arabs: “Would You Have Sex With a Jew?”
One-time special screening!
Two more movies by Yolande Zauberman are screened at the festival.