Dear Mr. Waldman / Michtavim Le America

Summary

This touching story about the son of Holocaust survivors is written and directed by the son of survivors and set in Tel Aviv in the early 1960's. Ten year old Hilik knows he and his brother's goal in life - to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust. The fragile equilibrium of the new life Rivka and Moishe have forged for themselves and their sons Hilik and Yonatan in the new state of Israel begins to waiver when Moishe convinces himself that his lost son, from his first marriage, didn't die in Auschwitz but somehow miraculously escaped to America to become President Kennedy's assistant. When Moishe writes a letter to Waldman in America, Hilik takes matters into his own hands.

Awards

Official Selection: 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival, Israel Academy Award Best Actor, Official Selection: 2007 Munich Film Festival, Official Selection: 2006 Jerusalem Film Festival.