Nurses
Director Israela Shaer Meoded, Producers Stav Meron Morag
Seventy years after her grandmother wept beside the empty bed of her missing daughter, Israela Shaer-Meoded sets out to uncover what happened to her missing Aunt Yedida, whose name means “friend.” Yedida was one of more than a thousand Mizrahi babies who vanished from Israeli hospitals in the 1950s. Through rare testimonies from nurses, caregivers, and doctors, Nurses reveals the emotional scars of those who never stopped looking for their missing children.
Phase of Support: Production
Israela Shaer Meoded
Director
Shaer Meoded is a filmmaker and lecturer who has directed more than eight short and feature films. Her thesis at Tel Aviv University focused on pioneering women directors in Israeli cinema, and as part of her research she rediscovered and restored Before Tomorrow — the first feature-length Israeli film directed by a woman, Alida Gera. She is currently writing a second thesis on “Mizrahi Women’s Political Cinema of the 1970s” in the Department of Culture Studies at Tel Aviv University. Meoded is a senior fellow for the advancement of equality, diversity, and shared society at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Stav Meron Morag
Producer
Meron graduated with honors from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem. She established her own production company Pardes Films (2015), which operates as a production home for feature and documentary that delves into human dilemmas of everyday life. Meron’s debut feature film The Death Of Cinema And My Father Too was selected for Cannes (2020) and won best picture at the Jerusalem Film Festival (2020). Beside narrative features, Meron produced several award-winning documentaries that explore identity, memory, and the Israeli social fabric. Her documentary work has been screened at leading international festivals and broadcast on major networks.