Souvenirs
Thursday, April 3 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
Out of work filmmaker Shahar Cohen and his father Sleiman, an 82-year-old Yemeni-Israeli, set out to follow Sleiman’s WWII path with the Jewish Brigade from Palestine to Europe. Along the way, Shahar hopes to discover a “souvenir” of his father’s time overseas, particularly in the Netherlands, where his father had a girlfriend.
Winner of Audience Award, New York Tribeca Film Festival; Winner of San Francisco Int’l 2007; Winner of DocAviv 2006 and Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary 2006; Second Audience Choice award of IDFA (Amsterdam) 2006
Director: Shahar Cohen & Halil Efrat
Country: Israel
Year: 2006
Length: 75 minutes
Format: Beta Sp
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles