"Noa at Seventeen"
1982
Directed by Isaac Yeshurun

It is 1951 and Noa, a seventeen-year old, struggles for personal autonomy as an ideological debate over the future of kibbutz socialism tears her family apart. Should she finish high school or follow her youth movement friends to kibbutz? Will Israel's labor movement follow Moscow blindly or turn its attention to the West? This sophisticated allegory penetrates the very essence of the bond which fused the personal and the political in the early years of the state of Israel. Hebrew with English subtitles. 86 minutes.