We’re excited to partner with the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for this screening of The First Lady.

The film tells the story of Efrat Tilma, one of the first trans people in Israel. Growing up in the 1960s, Tilma endured violence, police persecution, and exile. Her journey took her from Paris to Morocco to Berlin before she ultimately returned home to a changed Israel and became the first transgender volunteer on the Israeli police force. Despite Netanyahu’s rise, Tilma will no longer run away and chooses to fight for necessary social change head-on.

Rather than make a historical documentary, directors Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein breathe life into Tilma’s emotionally layered story, where the hero’s odyssey surges her forward into visibility and urgent activism in Israel and across the globe.

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