MULTIPLE AWARD WINNING FILM
From the director that brought us “The Concert, Radu Mihaileanu, the magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses.
Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s parting request that he “go, live, and become.”
Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love – both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother – he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own.
Festivals and Awards
Audience Award and Best Film Award from:
- The Aspen Filmfest,
- Atlanta Jewish Film Festival,
- the Berlin Film Festival
- Cinemania Film Festival
- Copenhagen International Film Festival
- France Lumiere Awards
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival
- the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Film Info
Year | 2005 |
Country | France, Israel, Belgium, Italy |
Director | Radu Mihăileanu |
Cast | Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai |
Runtime | 140 min |
Language | Hebrew, French, Amharic w/English subtitles |
Genre | drama |