Anat zuria

Anat Zuria is an independent film creator, director of "Purity" and "Sentenced to Marriage".

Zuria graduated from Ramat HAsharon art college and "Maale" Film school.
Over the years she has been an activist for women's rights alongside with her art and film career. She is a painter, a journalist, and a cultural critic in different magazines.
In the past few years her main focus is on cinema. She teaches in different film schools and lectures around the world about her films. Her documentary work can be described as feminine social independent cinema. Her films have a unique look, and an original view on women's issues.
Zuria is marriad to yossi and the mother of five.

Purity

This brave movie break a Tabu and examines how the laws of Tharat Hamishpaha (family purity), shaping women’s lives and sexuality within Jewish Orthodoxy.Won worldwide prizes, such as:

• Jerusalem International Film Festival, Jerusalem, July 2002: Mayor Award for Best Documentary Film

• YAMAGATA International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, October, 2003: Special Prize & Citizens’ Prize

• SCAM Prize for "Discovery of the Year", France, 2004

Sentenced to Marriage

A shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does not exist, and divorce is dealt with according to archaic and fundamentalist orthodox Jewish law. "Sentenced to Marriage" have created a full discussion in the Israeli media, was written about, and was shown in the Israeli parliament, as well as held a special screening in the New-york MOMA.
also won prizes, the following:

• Hotdocs, Canada, 2005: Best Documentary award

• Jerusalem Film Festival,Israel, 2004 : Wolgin Award for Best Documentary