Maya Dagan

History

A very prominent actress, comedian and TV host, Maya Dagan has a long list of appearances in Israeli theater, film and television. She has acted many times on the stage of Beit Lessin Theater, where she performed in the musicals Chicago and Guys and Dolls and Chekov’s Uncle Vanya. In 1995 she received the Israeli Theater Prize for promising actress of the year. Maya has appeared in many TV shows alongside Israelis biggest and most famous actors. In 2010 she was the Winner of the Israeli Academy Award for her role in Avi Nesher’s hit THE MATCHMAKER.

Profile

Movies

Mazel Tov

At a banquet hall in Israel, at the height of a war, Adam Weizmann’s Bar Mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and on the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam takes a crucial step toward coming to terms with his sexuality.

The Other Story

Tali Abadi

Tto rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.

Kapo in Jerusalem

Sarah Reich

An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel. Based on a true story.

The Matchmaker

Clara Epstein

During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.