At Home with Nina Menkes
Films by Nina Menkes
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9m 27s
Directed by Metrograph | 10 mins | 2026
Filmmaker Nina Menkes discusses her films "Queen of Diamonds," "The Great Sadness of Zohara," "Magdalena Viraga," and "The Bloody Child".
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The Great Sadness of Zohara
Leaving July 1
Directed by Nina Menkes | 38 mins | 1983
Departing Jerusalem for unknown, arid landscapes, the unnamed protagonist—played by Nina Menkes’ sister, Tinka, in the first of their collaborations—also drifts away, as if compelled by unseen forces, from her orthodox Jewish community and ... -
Magdalena Viraga
Leaving July 1
Directed by Nina Menkes | 90 mins | 1986
Menkes took home the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s “Best Independent Film” prize with her hypnotic but disturbing debut feature, in which her sister Tinka plays Ida, a sex worker accused of killing her pimp. Moving between a string... -
Queen of Diamonds
Leaving July 1
Directed by Nina Menkes | 77 mins | 1991
Set in a drab, grimly coruscating Las Vegas, "Queen of Diamonds" again situates Tinka Menkes, the filmmaker’s sister, as an icon of womankind’s profound estrangement under patriarchy. Her character, Firdaus—the name borrowed from the unrepe...
