Panina Zimmerman's film about the experiences of Nurit, a young woman from Haifa, which was released in 1978, living alone among natives in the jungle in India.
Professor Nurit Bird-David, from the University of Haifa, won this year an international award for lifetime achievement, in the study of hunter-gatherer societies.
The film describes how Nurit overcame difficulties of communication, a foreign culture and safety hazards in the jungle while documenting the lifestyle of the Nyaka people who were her family members for a year.
