400 miles to freedom, a documentary film by Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen and Shari Rothfarb Mekonen
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Label
400 miles to freedom, a documentary film by Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen and Shari Rothfarb Mekonen
Language
heb
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
400 miles to freedom
Responsibility statement
a documentary film by Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen and Shari Rothfarb Mekonen
Runtime
60
Summary
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 a 10 year old boy, was among them. 400 MILES TO FREEDOM follows his story as he breaks the 20 year silence around the brutal kidnapping he endured as a child in Sudan during his community's exodus out of Africa, and in so doing explores issues of immigration and racial diversity in Judaism
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Four hundred miles to freedom
Contributor
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