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400 Miles to Freedom DVD
- Item Number
- 185
- Estimated Value
- 200 USD
- Opening Bid
- 75 USD
Item Description
400 Miles to Freedom is an award-winning 1-hour documentary by Avishai Mekonen that was released in 2012. Mekonen was a fellow of FJC's Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists.
In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains, fled a dictatorship and began a secret and dangerous journey of escape. Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then 10 years old, was among them. In this film, he breaks his 20-year silence about the brutal kidnapping he endured as a child in Sudan during his community's exodus out of Africa. This life-defining event launches an inquiry into identity, leading him to African, Asian and Latino Jews in Israel and the U.S.
Distributor: http://www.7thart.com/films/400-Miles-to-Freedom
Executive Producer: http://www.bechollashon.org/events/400-miles.php
Recent review:
"A stunning piece of filmmaking that also gives the audience a vast amount of new knowledge and perspective and leaves a powerful impact on the viewers." —Sun Sentinel
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