Current sectionArt & CultureIsraeli animator Paz Bernstein collected women's accounts and transformed them into the quirky film 'Widespread'Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribePaz Bernstein. "I don't want to jinx it, but if a film that shows a vagina 40 times on-screen wins an Ophir Award in Israel, that's just insane." Credit: Ella Barak 01:53 PM • July 22 2026 IDTWhen she was 19, Paz Bernstein went with her mother to a gynecologist. She "examined me, looked at me and told me, 'You have something that if you don't treat it within five years, you'll get cancer,'" Bernstein recalls. "That's not true, by the way. I had HPV. That's a really insensitive thing to say to a person."In the NewsShe Was Tired of Women Being Humiliated at the Gynecologist. So She Animated ItJerusalem Film Festival Chief Urges Palestinian Filmmakers to EngageA Palestinian Poet's Hebrew Journey to His Long-lost CityChristopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Is a Bold Blockbuster – but a Bit HollowLost Holocaust Music, Nearly Erased by Stalin, Goes on Tour in AsiaRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThe Most Optimistic Israeli in Jerusalem Is Leaving the CountryAs Ground Invasion Looms, U.S. and Iran Want Wild-card Israel Out of the FightDemocrats Rejected U.S. Aid to Israel, and AIPAC Couldn't Stop ThemBetween Messi and Milei: How Argentina Became Israel's Team at the World CupThe Original Ozempic Society of Ancient Rome'Choose Hope': Natalie Portman Backs Arab-Jewish Party Ahead of Israeli Election