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MARY LOU
Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4
Israel, 2010, video, television mini-series
150 minutes (4 parts)
Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Eytan Fox
North American Premiere
Best Miniseries, Israeli Emmy Awards 2010
WJFF
favorite Eytan Fox (The Bubble 2006, Walk on Water 2004, Yossi and Jagger 2002, Florentine
1997), WJFF 2006 Decade Award recipient, brings to life a modern fable with a
catchy musical message. An adoring fan of Israeli pop legend Zvika Pick
(who appears as himself), Miriam (Maya Dagan) dreams of being a famous singer,
leading her to mysteriously abandon her son Meir (Ido Rosenberg) on his tenth
birthday. Both he and his best friend in high school, who happens to be a
beautiful girl, have their eye on the same gorgeous guy. But Meir never stops
searching for his mother, eventually moving to Tel Aviv and becoming famous as
a drag queen named Mary Lou. The songs never stop coming as Meir/Mary Lou discovers
he needs to find himself even more than his mother.
CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Israel, America-Israel Cultural
Foundation and The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH the 16th Street J’s Kurlander
Program for Gay and Lesbian Outreach and Engagement (GLOE)
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