The Jerusalem Dream
Synopsis
In the late 1970s, after thousands of years of longing and prayer for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews began to arrive in Israel. After 40 years, they open their closed hearts and tell of the loss and pain, of those who died of thirst, hunger and epidemics, in the refugee camps in Sudan. For those who left behind a whole life, just to fulfill a dream – to get to Jerusalem.
Credits
Director(s)
Meni Elias
Producer(s)
Micha Shagrir, Meni Elias
Script
Meni Elias
Cinematography
Meni Elias
Editor
Tor Ben Mayor
Original Language
Hebrew, Amharic
Subtitles
Hebrew, English
Sound Design
Rotem Dror
Music
Koby Vitman
Festival Highlights
Paris Israeli Film Festival, France, 2017
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2017
Docaviv Film Festival, Israel, 2016
International Ethnological Film Festival, Serbia, 2016
Sole Luna, Italy, 2016