Israeli film via Addis Film Festival
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You are invited to attend a film screening of "These Are My Names"
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6/9/2014
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Addis International Film Festival will host a 30–minute documentary written, directed, and produced by Israeli filmmaker Ruth Mason ––These Are My Names, a film that takes you through the amazing stories that Ethiopian Israelis’ names entail.
First presented in 2010 in Hebrew with English subtitles, These Are My Names now comes to Ethiopian audience to be shown at the Alliance Ethio-Francaise hall on June 11th, 2014 at 4PM.
See you all there!!!!
Film synopsis in short:
Ethiopian Jews' multiple names reflect the richness, wisdom and beauty of their culture -- and every name tells a story. In the film, young Ethiopian Israelis share their journeys toward their names: stories of love and connection, survival and loss, anger and pride. The characters' original names – changed without their consent upon arrival in Israel – take them back to their childhoods in mountain villages, to the hunger and fear in Sudan, to longing for loved ones who died or disappeared on the journey to Israel, to denial of their identity… and reclamation of their roots.
A couple of the interviewees in the documentary
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