THE FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL SAPIR COLLEGE

Sensitive, involved cinemaAt Sapir, there’s a special emphasis on social andpolitical sensitivity, and involvement in the widercommunity. Our courses are aimed at helping todeepen the participants’ societal and class-basedawareness; among those courses are - Cinema of theNear East, Women’s Narratives in Third World Cinema,The Fantastic and Subversive in Third World Cinema,Gender and Sexuality, Documentary Cinema from anAnthropological Perspective, Iranian Cinema, PopularIndian Cinema, Bollywood on Hollywood, Mizrahisand Mizrahiness, The Image of Minorities in IsraeliTelevision, and Classical Mizrahi Music Theory.Broadening education and honing awareness leads tothe search for alternative options, encountering newconcepts and fostering greater openness towardmulticultural cinema, and influencing fields of powerthereby. Students at Sapir are well-versed in the currentcinematic-theoretical and professional discourse invarious sites around the world. They engage withquestions that concern the most important creators,and are aware of highly daring approaches incontemporary cinema. As a result of their exposureto Third and Fourth World film and intensive debateson social and political injustice and bias, themes thatresonate powerfully in films created at Sapir - filmsthat are carving out their place in the vanguard ofsensitive, committed works.±∞