Breaking Bread, Beth Elise Hawk’s directorial debut, is a stunning documentary on Israeli and Arab chefs working together for a food festival that gives us a rare portrait of friendship and togetherness in the Middle East. The hour and a half long film, which was selected to premiere at over 65 film festivals, is out in theaters on February 4, 2022.
Hawk’s film focuses on the A-Sham food festival, founded by Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel. The festival started in 2015 and takes place in Downtown Haifa on one weekend every December. Before the festival, chefs from different political and religious backgrounds are paired to work together for weeks in order to conceptualize and create mouthwatering dishes for patrons to taste at the festival.
Although the director and star of the film are both women, the rest of the documentary is essentially all male chefs. This isn’t surprising given that professional kitchens are almost always male dominated. Still, the film could do a better job of highlighting and lifting the few women in Israel’s culinary world.
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