• Title:
• Live & Become

• Director:
• Radu Mihaileanu

• Amharic, Hebrew, and French with English subtitles

• France/Israel, 148 min

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1 is Sold Out. Show 2  

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, Live and Become is the emotional story of one boy’s chance survival amidst the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s. A mother conspires to place her seven-year-old non-Jewish son with a group of Falashas (Ethiopian Jews) bound for Israel as part of “Operation Moses.” Her parting words to her child are that he should never tell anyone his true identity. And so, the child (Sirak Sabahat) grows up pretending to be both Jewish and an orphan in modern Israel, where he embraces Judaism and Western values but also feels the sting of racism. Though he maintains his secret, the tension between his truth and the reality of his situation builds to an emotional climax.

Sponsored by the David Bruce Smith Family Foundation

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and the Embassy of France

Welcoming Remarks: Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, President, Washington DCJCC 
Special Guest: Sirak Sabahat, actor

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1 is Sold Out. Show 2  

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