Ada: My Mother the Architect
Dates : December 9, 2025 — December 10, 2025
A deeply moving portrait of an architect tested by the impossible choices between career, country and motherhood.
Ada: My Mother the Architect
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 extrordinary women 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 highest democratic ideals, most notably in the acclaimed Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, the Open University, Ben Gurion University, the Institute for Democracy and numerous other civic institutions around the country. 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.
Conversation with director Yael Melamede following the screening.
- Dir. Yael Melamede | 2024 | United States, Israel | 91 min
- Documentary
- Hebrew (w/ English subtitles)
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