Nina Is an Athlete
New York Jewish Film Festival 2025
January 15 - 29, 2025
This intimate documentary portrait brings us into the fast-paced world of Nina Gorodetsky, a champion wheelchair badminton player preparing to represent Israel in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics—while weighing the possibility of having a baby in her late thirties.
Post-screening discussion with director Ravit Markus
This intimate documentary portrait brings us into the fast-paced world of Nina Gorodetsky, a champion wheelchair badminton player preparing to represent Israel in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics—potentially her last chance as a woman in her late thirties. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic complicates things, as does her aspiration to expand her family with another child. Set over the course of three years, Nina Is an Athlete examines with empathy and rigor the intense emotional and physical commitment it would take Gorodetsky to realize her professional and personal dreams. So much more than a sports documentary, Ravit Markus’s film is about motherhood, the societal expectations put on women, the necessary resiliency of living as an immigrant (at age 11, Nina emigrated to Israel from Georgia with her family after the fall of the Soviet Union), and what it’s like to live as an extraordinary person with so much to offer.
Special thanks to our community partner, ReelAbilities, for their support of Nina is an Athlete.
Closed captions and audio descriptions are available with our capti-view devices for all screenings.
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