Jephtah's Daughter

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The year is 1984. Several members of a Jewish family are making their way on foot through the desert from Ethiopia to Sudan, where a plane is waiting to take them to Israel. When the family is attacked by bandits, both the father and daughter are faced with an impossible choice.  A story based on some of the experiences of hundreds of Ethiopian families immigrating to Israel in the 1980s

 

Crew
Director: Einat Kapach
Screenwriter: Einat Kapach
Cast
Maski Shibaro, Eli Danker, Gabi Shooshan, Hertsl Cohen
Screenings & Prizes

Awards

First prize of the City of Jerusalem for the Best Fiction Film, 1996

 

Festivals

The 14th  Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, 1996

The Boston Jewish Film Festival, USA 1998

Henri Langolis International Student Film Festival, Poitiers France1998.

Student Golden Lion Film Festival, Taipei Taiwan 1999

Israeli Film Week, Bonn, Germany 2001

Sukagawa International Film Festival, Japan 2002

Celebration of Jewish Cinema, Jerusalem 1999 

Women Film Festival, Rehovot Israel 2012

1997 Drama
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Subtitles in
EnglishHebrew
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