• Title:
• Odessa Odessa

• Director:
• Michale Boganim

• English, Russian and Yiddish with English subtitles

• France/Israel, 96 min

• Venue:
• Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema and
  Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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Beginning in the Ukrainian metropolis on the Black Sea, this beautiful documentary discovers the remnants of the once thriving Odessan Jewish community and follows it into “exile” amidst the environs of Brighton Beach , Brooklyn and Ashdod, . These former Odessans long for a sense of a belonging that cannot be replicated in their adopted homes despite the cohesive “little Odessas” in which they dwell. While their children adapt to their new homes more easily, the émigrés pine for a paradise lost even as they confess that perhaps it never existed at all. “In Odessa we were Jews, in we are Russians,” says one of them, lamenting the exile’s dilemma.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of , the Russian Cultural Center and Yiddish of Greater Washington

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