Columbus Jewish Film Festival - Live and Become

Directed by Radu Mihaileanu, Narrative, 2005, France, Belgium, Italy, Israel, Hebrew, French, Amharic with English subtitles, 140 min.

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 find an identity and a happiness all his own.

20th Anniversary Film, fan favorite from 2006.

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