In her latest work, French filmmaker Yolande Zauberman tries to track down a mysterious trans woman who allegedly walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv.
The film loosely follows a group of Arab trans women on Hatnufa Street, an under-lit back street in Tel Aviv. Zauberman. In that project, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018, the director investigated sexual abuse in an Orthodox community in Israel. According to press notes for her new doc, in order to make a scene inwork, Zauberman needed to film a trans woman walking away from the camera. The girls she met on Hatnufa agreed.
Zauberman shifts between Israela and Talleen’s stories and her search for the Gazan Beauty. She returns to Hatnufa with the memory of this story and a blurry photo. It’s here that she meets Danièle and Nathalie, two trans women whose backgrounds offer more than this 76-minute film can hold. For self-protection, Nathalie wears a veil during her interviews; over the course of the film, she returns to her faith.
When asked about the woman who walked from Gaza, Danièle tells Zauberman point blank that she has been lied to. “That is bullshit,” she says quickly. And when the director asks about Gaza, Danièle is the subject who outright refuses. There’s pain in her eyes when she talks about survival, as though she is on the verge of tears, and a sobering and devastating reality hits when she says, “I don’t want to speak about that.
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