Virgins (Hebrew: אין בתולות בקריות, French: Vierges) is a 2018 French-Israeli drama film and the feature-length directorial debut of Keren Ben Rafael.
It centres on a rebellious teenager, Lena (Rieger), dissatisfied with the monotony of her life in Kiryat Yam and always battling her Russian mother, Irena (Dodina).
She constantly battles her mother, Irena (Dodina), a Russian immigrant, whose once-popular beach bar and cafe is now mostly deserted and riddled with debts.
[8] The idea for the film was drawn from a real-life event in Kiryat Yam, where an alleged mermaid sighting in 2009 received significant media attention.
Wendy Ide of Screen Daily praised the "eye-catching turn from Rieger", continuing: "Her fiercely charismatic presence, plus the film’s evocatively flyblown sense of place, should make this a fixture on the festival circuit.