Mika

Israel, 2008

Mika is a child-woman, a Russian illegal immigrant who raises her little daughter Sophia in a small bomb shelter in the Mahane Yehuda vegetable market. For a living she cleans building staircases and collects food leftovers from the market. When Mika finds out that her daughter Sophia is sick, she tries to do everything she can to save her. Being a foreigner with no medical treatment rights, she has no choice but to get money for a private doctor. Mika lives in a man's world that interprets her beauty as seduction and tries to help out of the wrong reasons. Her struggle, gathering all her forces to face such a society, is in vain.

Fiction  | Video  |  27   Minutes  |  Color  |  Russian and Hebrew, Hebrew subtitles

Screenplay: Merav Hatav
Cast: Lucy Dubinchik, Didi Gat, Refael Azran
Cinematography: Ran Aviad
Editing: Pazit Lichtman, Merav Hatav
Production: Moshe Kadosh
Festivals: Jerusalem
Source: Merav Hatav, Ma’ale School of Film, TV & the Arts
Support: Cinema Project – The Jehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation

Screened with the films:
Ezrat Nashim
Bruna

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