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A man picks up a discarded painting and finds the artist who agrees to meet him. They befriend each other and she tells him how she survived the Holocaust before travelling to Hungary together.
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
Director Tal Haim Yoffe (The Green Dumpster Mystery) joins asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, along with their supporters, as they set out for an orderly march through Tel Aviv. Along the way, Yoffe looks at how the city’s streets and monuments reflect the diverse cultures that were welcomed by the ‘White City.’ As the demonstration grows, the call builds for the city to welcome its newest residents. An expertly-crafted documentary that looks at how a demonstration for tolerance of Tel Aviv’s most recent arrivals fits with the history of the city, as shaped by Jewish immigrants from around the world.
3 years after losing his father in a suicide bombing in a train station in Nahariya, 12 and a half-year-old Yam has to decide whether and how to celebrate his upcoming Bar-Mitzvah without his dad. And he has another mission: to get to the scene of the bombing and deal with the guilt he feels over his father’s death, for not being able to say sorry for the way he acted just beforehand and for not having the chance to say goodbye. This is the story of a boy, a victim of terror, who has a license to be angry, but no one to be angry with.
