ADA — MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT - JEWISH STORY PARTNERS (FREE SCREENING)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Jerusalem Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - Woodstock Film Festival, Czech Film and Architecture Festival, Berkshire International Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Architecture and Design Film Festival

Architecture • Family • Motherhood • Home • Civics • Jewish Studies • Democracy

Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 81 minutes | Languages: English, Hebrew with English Subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Yael Melamede | Producers: Yael Melamede & Hilla Medalia | Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Elise Jaffe & Jeffrey Brown | Editor: Sharon Yaish

Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished architects in the world, but very little is known about her outside her home country of Israel. ADA — MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT is a deeply moving portrait of an extraordinary woman directed by her daughter, filmmaker and former architect Yael Melamede. Ada is a true pioneer who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices. Despite personal sacrifices, Ada's work gave physical form to some of Israel’s most important civic institutions, most notably in the acclaimed Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, the Open University, Ben Gurion University, and the Institute for Democracy, to name a few. ADA explores the impossible tensions between professional ambition and private life and the ongoing challenge of holding onto ideals in a country increasingly drifting away from them.