Arbbat El Film
Noa Ittah
2025
Through four films from across the Arab world, a comparative gaze unfolds on young girls and boys at a moment of rupture — poised between childhood and adulthood, between personal identity and a society that does not always grant it space to exist. These films explore the experience of coming-of-age, set against the political and social landscapes in which it takes shape.
This exploration stems from my personal connection with my grandmother, who raised me within a culture and language that gradually receded from my life. Five years after her passing, I found myself returning to them through music and films, in an attempt to mourn, to bridge, and to reconnect with an identity I had distanced myself from in childhood.
(Linguistic note — the title “أربعة الفيلم” is intentionally written in a way that does not follow the standard rules of Modern Standard Arabic.)
Editorial and content guidance: Eyal Sagui Bizawe
- Design: Noa Ittah
- Translation: Scripts in Arabic, French, and Italian were generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) and subsequently edited linguistically: Arabic by Najwa Taqi and French by Jacob Ittah. All films (except Summer in La Goulette) were translated from Arabic to Hebrew by Lea Ittah
- Language editing: Eyal Sagui Bizawe
- Copies: 6
- Pages: 280
- Type of binding: Soft Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 18 x 27
- Printing: A.R. Printing Ltd., Tel Aviv
- Binding: Daniel Blum
- Type of printing: Digital
- Publication: Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Book photography: Peleg Naor
Noa Ittah, born in 1998 in Tel Aviv–Jaffa, lives and works in the city. A graphic designer and recent graduate of the Visual Communication Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. In her work, she explores ways to make complex content accessible to the reader through design, while sparking interest in exploring the subject. Her projects are primarily based on the combination of typography and archival materials, creating compositions that merge the visual with the research-oriented.
