In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains, fled a dictatorship and began a secret and dangerous journey of escape. Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then a 10-year-old boy, was among them. 400 MILES TO FREEDOM follows his story as he breaks the 20 year silence around the brutal kidnapping he endured as a child in Sudan during his community’s exodus out of Africa, and in so doing explores issues of immigration and racial diversity in Judaism. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | January 11, 2012 | |
Runtime: | 61 min | |
Genres: | Documentary Drama Biography | |
Crew: | Scott Rubin Avishai Mekonen Shari Rothfarb Mekonen | |
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