From Tel Aviv (Depuis Tel Aviv)

Summary

From Tel Aviv A Film by: Naruna Kaplan de Macedo

I am Jewish because my mother's mother was Jewish. I am Jewish because, as my grandfather once told me, "Kaplan means Jewish". It's in the name.

I did not know Israel, did not understand Israel: it was confusing and terrifying. Israel meant war, the conflict, images of disaster.

Then one day, in Paris, I meet Nadav. He is Israeli. We fall in love and I understand that I have to know Israel if I am ever going to understand him.

I go to his home, to Tel-Aviv. As I walk through the streets of the city I wonder if I can ever make it my own, my home. In order to protect myself I turn to the familiar, to what I know: the camera. I start filming from Tel-Aviv, searching for identity -- the city's and my own

Vancouver Premiere

Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel
Language: English, Hebrew, Spanish with English subtitles with English subtitles
Subject: N/A
Run time: 67 minutes
Format: N/A

Director: Naruna Kaplan de Macedo