Timna Rosenheimer is a documentary film director, writer and artistic editor of Helicon, an anthological series of contemporary poetry. Her film Fortuna, a 53 minute documentary; a family saga of six sisters won numerous awards, was broadcast on Israeli TV, shown in film festivals in Europe and bought by broadcasters abroad.

Her book “Home – spaces , objects , people” was published earlier this year.

FORTUNA
(Israel, 2000 - Colour Video documentary, 53 mins. Hebrew with English subtitles)

Once a year the six unforgettable Dvash sisters leave their homes, children, grandchildren, husbands and work to retreat together into a private world for a holiday in Eilat. This is their annual pleasure of being together away from everything, like a return to childhood. Amidst their delight of being together, as they know they are being filmed and for the first time in their life they have a voice. For them through the vehicle of the film the paradoxical traumas of their lives unexpectedly enter another psychological world. The overpowring influence of their formidable uncaring mother, Fortuna, overshadows their memories.
 

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