Meital Dohan Movies

Israeli actor Tzahi Grad makes his debut as a writer/director with the complicated caper Giraffes. The opening chase scene involves an unidentified woman falling from a building. The story flashes back to a night of confusing mix-ups involving three women who live in the same apartment building in Tel-Aviv: Efrat (Meital Dohan), Dafna (Liat Glick), and Avigail (Tinkerbell). Avigail accidentally goes to Dafna's film shoot, Dafna accidentally goes on Efrat's blind date, and Efrat gets into a dangerous taxicab situation. When the cab driver turns up dead and Efrat discovers a bunch of money, she goes on the run. Desperately looking for a lawyer, she meets up with Avner (Micha Selektar), who was supposed to be her blind date in the first place. Things get even more convoluted when it's revealed that Avigail is a magazine journalist writing the whole caper for a movie script. Giraffes was shown at the 2003 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Israeli director Doron Eran attacks the subject of ritual female circumcision in his 2002 film God's Sandbox. Hunting for her runaway daughter Rachel (Orly Perl) in Sinai, well-to-do author Liz (Razia Israeli) finally locates her -- and her daughter's Bedouin boyfriend Mustafa (Sami Samir). Upon learning of Liz's profession, Mustafa recalls a tale from his youth about a beautiful, liberated woman named Leila (Meital Dohan) who fell in love with a Bedouin's son named Najim (Juliano Merr). Najim's father learns of the romance and the two are forbidden to marry as they had planned. Disregarding his father's and the tribe's decision, Najim and Leila are banished -- but are later tracked down so that Leila can be captured and forcibly circumcised, as custom dictates. Mustafa's tale causes an extreme reaction in Liz and she and her daughter are forced to come to terms with a secret her mother has long kept hidden. God's Sandbox was featured in the "Another View" section at the 2002 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide