SOUVENIRS

Directors: Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat
Israel, 2006
Hebrew, Italian and Dutch with English subtitles
Color
Length: 75 Min.
Documentary

Awards Won: San Francisco Int’l 2007, DocAviv 2006, Israeli Academy Award for best documentary 2006, Second Audience Choice award of IDFA (Amsterdam) 2006

An elderly, Iraqi-born veteran of the British Army’s Jewish Brigade, which was formed in Mandatory Palestine toward the end of the Second World War, accompanies his son, an Israeli filmmaker, to retrace the Brigade’s steps, through combat in northern Italy to occupation duties in The Netherlands.  The son, however, has an ulterior motive, and that is to track down the Dutch woman who he believes was his father’s girlfriend during the war.

Shown with Minus Plus

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