Full Support + Tattooed4Life
New York Jewish Film Festival 2025
January 15 - 29, 2025
The poignant and revealing Full Support is an entertaining work of nonfiction that takes the viewer into a bra shop in Jaffa, Israel, where a string of women share stories and anxieties about their relationships with their own bodies. Preceded by Kineret Hay-Gillor’s Tattooed4Life.
Post-screening discussion with Tattooed4life director Kineret Hay-Gillor, and Full Support director Michal Cohen
The funny and revealing Full Support takes the viewer into a bra shop in Jaffa, Israel, where a string of women share stories and anxieties about their relationships with their own bodies. In choosing to focus her documentary around such sensitive and unorthodox subject matter, director Michal Cohen reminds us of the centrality of women’s chests to the arc of their lives, from birth to awkward teenage years to mammogram check-ups and beyond, though it’s not often seriously discussed in broader society. Cohen’s film analyzes something that is so seemingly mundane—and often cast into cheap hierarchies of size and desirability—from a crucial female perspective in an entertaining and poignant work of nonfiction that, in giving women voices about their bodies, functions as its own form of resilience and liberation.
Preceded by
Tattooed4Life
Kineret Hay-Gillor, 2024, Israel, 30m
Hebrew with English subtitles
New York Premiere
To help cope with her own personal trauma and also memorialize those murdered on October 7, 2023, an Israeli tattoo artist who survived the killings imprints her pain and healing directly on the skin. This documentary presents one soul’s unique approach to showcasing resilience amidst the world’s darkness. Note: some images may be disturbing.
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