SARAJEVO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF!

In cooperation with UNHCR for BIH, the outstanding film, Live & Become will be screened at the cinema Unitic. Prior to the screening, Mrs. Klara Pelja from The Jewish Community Sarajevo will address the guests. Klara will talk about the shooting of the documentary film Sarajevo mi seudad de oro. After Klara, UNHCR Representative for BIH, Mr. Naveed Hussain will greet the guests.

Live& Become is an epic story of love, survival and identity. A Christian mother forces her 9 years old son to declare himself Jewish in order to be included in operation Moses, the rescues mission organized by Israel to enable the Ethiopian Jewish community to escape the famine in Ethiopia.