| Boy Meets Girl | |
| Director: | Michal Bat-Adam |
| Producer: | Avi Kleinberger Gideon Amir |
| Screenplay: | Michal Bat-Adam |
| Starring: | Gabi Eldor Ilan Dar Shai Golan |
| Music: | Nurit Hirsch |
| Cinematography: | Nurith Aviv |
| Editing: | Hagit Hanin Lena Kadish |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | Israel |
| Language: | Hebrew |
Boy Meets Girl (he|בן לוקח בת Ben Loke'ah Bat) is a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.
The story is a semi-autobiographical account of Bat-Adams' own upbringing at a kibbutz boarding school.[1] Her 1994 film, (he|איה), revisits the character of Aya, who is now a married woman haunted by her past.
Aya (Einat Helfman) is a shy 10-year-old girl who has grown up in Tel Aviv. When her parents, who are both doctors, travel to Thailand as part of their work, Aya is placed in a boarding school on a kibbutz. As an outsider, she has difficulty adjusting to the insularity and unfamiliar values and practices of kibbutz society. She struggles to cope with the challenges of living with dozens of her peers in a communal children's dormitory where there is no separation according to gender.