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Diploma

Hebron. The night of the Jewish settlement Masquerade. Fifteen-year-old Samer insists on taking his older sister Ayat to collect her diploma from the Palestinian university.

  • Israel
  • 2009, 22 min
  • Director: Yaelle Kayam
  • Director of photography: Ziv Berkovich
  • Editor: Or Ben David
  • Screenplay: Yaelle Kayam
  • Cast: Osama Arbiaa, Youssra Barakat
  • Producer: Tal Siano
  • Production: The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School – Jerusalem


Yaelle Kayam

Yaelle Kayam (b. 1979, Tel-Aviv) studied French at the Sorbonne in Paris, anthropology at the University of Tel-Aviv and film at The Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia before enrolling at the Sam Spiegel Film School. She made her first film, Pralines, in 2007. Diploma, her graduation film, came third at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation in 2009 and was successful at a number of other festivals.