SELF MADE (BOREG) New Auteurs

In SELF MADE, Israeli director Shira Geffen unites Sarah Adler (ANA ARABIA, MARIE ANTOINETTE) with newcomer Samira Saraya in a charming story of exchanged identities. Adler plays conceptual artist Michal, who loses her memory when a bed she bought — from the Ikea-like factory where Saraya’s character works — breaks and knocks her on the head. Although one woman is Israeli and the other Palestinian, they cross paths at a border checkpoint, precipitating a magical identity exchange which further muddies the cross currents of their lives. This surreal comedy provides a much needed female interior perspective on a controversial situation.