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Tough
questions are raised in this contemporary story of the Bene Israel, a
Jewish community settled in India for more than 2000 years, and who only
count 4000 people still living in and around Bombay today. This unique
Jewish culture is at risk of disappearing from the world within one generation,
and many families are afraid they will have to choose between staying
in India, their homeland, and realizing their Jewish faith. Writer and
Director: Jonas Parienté and Mathias Mangin. India, 2010, 55 mins.
Post-screening
talk with Nissim B. Reuben, Program Director, Indian-Jewish American Relations,
American Jewish Committee, Washington, DC. Presented in cooperation with
Be'chol Lashon (In Every Tongue), the Indo American Arts Council and TiE
Tri State.
Jonas
Parienté studied in Paris (BA in Sociology) and New York (MFA
in Integrated Media Arts) where he directed his first two short documentaries.
Bodies & Soul is a portrait of his then-neighbor Joe, whose life incarnates
the transformations of the Lower East Side, from the self-destructive
punk era to the more gentrified current period. After his first hour-long
documentary, Next year in Bombay, he directed a web-documentary for French
public TV on Mumbai's urbanization from the eyes and experience of a rickshaw
driver ("A rickshaw in the city").
Mathias
Mangin was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and grew up in Paris. He graduated
in finance from Edhec Business School, and later studied photography in
Sao Paulo and filmmaking in New York. His short fiction film The Chance
was selected in festivals in Paris and Toronto. He also directed Paris,
Adeus, a short video art piece shown during the Year of France in Brazil
and on TV Cultura. Mathias is part of a screenwriting workshop at the
famous Fémis School of Cinéma in Paris.
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