Samira
IZZY — ALL • 40m
Samira is 40 years old, she is a married woman and a mother and lives a normal life in Judea and Samaria. One day she travels to a coffee shop in Israeli territory in order to blow herself up there. The bomb planted in her body does not explode and she is forced to throw it inside the shop, where it explodes and injures a girl. Samira escapes but is caught and interrogated by two Shabak (the Israel Security Agency) investigators. During her interrogation, she is exposed to videos of interrogations of her associates that were done earlier. Slowly the motives that made her become a suicide bomber are revealed.
Year: 2015
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Shira Gefen
Producer: Riki Shelach
Starring: Samira Saraya, Sarah Adler
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