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.

Screening Details

Film Info

Year2005
CountryFrance, Israel, Belgium, Italy
DirectorRadu Mihăileanu
CastYaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai
Runtime 140 min
LanguageHebrew, French, Amharic w/English subtitles
Genre