POLYGRAPH
DIR. SAMIRA SARAYA2021 / ISRAEL-PALESTINE / 20 MINS
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army, has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine’s sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister’s house.
CREDITS
Written By SAMIRA SARAYA
Produced By ELI LASZLO BERGER & SARI EZOUZ BERGER
Edited By SARI EZOUZ BERGER
Director of Cinematography TALIA GALON
Sound By RONEN NAGEL
Music By SYSTEM ALI
Production Design By OREN ADAF
Featuring SAMIRA SARAYA, HADAS YARON & FIDAA ZIDANE
OFFICIAL SELECTION
MIX MILANO FESTIVAL
Milan, Italy
September 2021
Milan, Italy
September 2021
KASHISH MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
Mumbai, India
May 2021
Mumbai, India
May 2021
WICKED QUEER
Boston, MA
April 2021
Boston, MA
April 2021
ROZE FILMDAGEN
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 2021
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 2021
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
Sydney, Australia
February 2021
Sydney, Australia
February 2021
TEL AVIV INTERNATIONAL LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
Tel Aviv, Israel
November 2020
Tel Aviv, Israel
November 2020

ABOUT SAMIRA SARAYA
Samira Saraya is a Palestinian actor, writer, and director currently based in Tel Aviv. In her early twenties, Samira began performing in drag as an LGBTQ+ activist, and was making her living as a hospital nurse. Her first career breakthrough occurred in 2011 when she landed a lead role in the successful Israeli TV show Minimum Wage and Samira has since continued acting in critically acclaimed films and TV shows— most notably, Fauda, the hit Israeli TV drama. For her 2017 performance in Death of a Poetess, Samira won the Best Actress Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and in 2018, won the Best Script Award for her short Polygraph at TLVFest, Tel Aviv's International LGBT Film Festival. Samira has a graduate degree in directing from Tel Aviv University and made her directing debut with Polygraph in 2020, which features the first openly lesbian relationship in Palestinian cinema.