Romanian-French filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu has found dramatic source material for his third feature in the resettlement of Ethiopian Jews, or Falashas, in Israel after the airlifts of the mid-1980s, which were supervised by Israel and the U.S. The film tells the coming-of-age story of Schlomo, a supposedly orphaned Ethiopian child passed off as a Falasha Jew during the exodus of the country's Jewish population in 1985. After arriving in Israel, Schlomo is adopted by a pair of secular left-wingers, whose affection for their new son does little to quell his burgeoning identity crisis, or the intolerant attitudes of their own countrymen. An insightful tale of motherhood, and personal and ethnic identity. more at www.menemshafilms.com
2005, color, 2 hours 23 minutes, France