Movie Details
Original Language:Hebrew
Cast & Crew
E
Ely Sanbata
as self
A
Adis Sanbata
as self
A
Aderet Ehrenhalt Sanbata
as self
M
Mola Mekonant
as self
BrownWhite
StarringEly SanbataAdis SanbataAderet Ehrenhalt Sanbata
DirectorRuchama Ehrenhalt
10 minDocumentary
Plot
Beta Israel is a Jewish community of several tens of thousands who lived in Ethiopia before the mass repatriation to Israel in the late twentieth century. Ruchama Ehrenhalt's short film is set about the filmmaker's nephew, the son of her sister, a white American-Israeli woman, and her husband, a dark-skinned Ethiopian Jew. Around the age of three, the boy began to notice that he looked nothing like either his «light» mom or his «dark» dad. The film explores the phenomenon of biracial children and how skin color from an early age influences the formation of their identity.
