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In a kibbutz in the 1970s, Dvir, a 12 year old boy faces the harsh demands of the collective while struggling to make room for, and bring happiness to, his emotionally unstable mother. Without a father around and living away from his mother in the children's house, Dvir is determined to help his mother find solace and start a new life.

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‘Reconciliation’, says Robi Damelin, whose son was killed by a Palestinian sniper in 2002, ‘might sound eccentric to you, but it is not, it works’. Focusing on the fascinating attempts by bereaved people from both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict to meet, talk and find new ways of living together, this heartrending documentary goes beyond the news headlines to the courageous and painstaking path of ordinary people who beg for a different future.

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When twelve-year-old Mauro's parents need to go on the run because of their involvement in resisting the repressive 1970s Brazilian government, they drop him off at the home of his orthodox Jewish grandfather in Sao Paolo. The neighbourhood and its denizens are mostly a mystery to the lovable boy, whose own lack of Jewish upbringing is much commented upon by his grandfather's taciturn neighbour Shlomo, who takes him in. Thus begins a strange number of months, filled with Mauro's awakening political consciousness and immersion in the Jewish culture of Sao Paolo's Bom Retiro district.

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Finding himself irritated but intrigued when asked “are you Jewish?”, secular young Canadian filmmaker Jamie Kastner takes his cue from documentary cinema’s rabble-rouser-in-chief Michael Moore and goes in search of the motivations and meaning behind what he’d long felt to be a loaded question. His odyssey gets under way with a belated barmitzvah in orthodox Brooklyn, before going global and taking him from Amsterdam to Auschwitz, via Jerusalem.