Boy Meets Girl (1982 film)

Boy Meets Girl (בן לוקח בת Ben Loke'ah Bat) is a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.

The story is a semi-autobiographical account of Bat-Adams' own upbringing at a kibbutz boarding school. Her 1994 film, Aya: Imagined Autobiography (איה), revisits the character of Aya, who is now a married woman haunted by her past.

Plot
Aya (Einat Helfman) is a shy 10-year-old girl who has grown up in Tel Aviv. When her parents, who are both doctors, travel to Thailand as part of their work, Aya is placed in a boarding school on a kibbutz. As an outsider, she has difficulty adjusting to the insularity and unfamiliar values and practices of kibbutz society. She struggles to cope with the challenges of living with dozens of her peers in a communal children's dormitory where there is no separation according to gender.

Cast

 * Einat Helfman as Aya
 * Gabi Eldor as Ina
 * Ilan Dar as Aya's father
 * Shai Golan as Zvika
 * Gill Dontchevzky as Neni
 * Ayala Fiszel as Hanna's Mother
 * Erella Ashkenazi as Teacher
 * Andrea Sade as English Teacher
 * Dina Limon as Teacher
 * Assaf Zur as Giora
 * Osnat Farago as Hanna
 * Eyal Fox as Dodo
 * Boaz Rekiewicz as Roni
 * Amalya Dayan as Amalya