TINGHIR – JERUSALEM, ECHOES FROM THE MELLAH

direction: Kamal Hachkar

86 minutes

Thursday, 22.5.

16:00

KINO EUROPA

I was born and raised in France believing that every Berber was Muslim. But in Tinghir, my hometown in the Moroccan Atlas, the tales of my grandfathers made me realize some other Berbers were in fact Jewish. However, in the early 60s, despite more than 2000 years of shared history, the Jewish people left the Atlas, the entire community departed. I decided to embrace this memory with the generation who still remembers their presence. One thing leading to another, research leads me to Israel, where I found some families from Tinghir. Sounds from Israel and Morocco, resonating melodies, voices and stories of this dual identity shared between Muslims and Jews.

AWARDS

Best Film at Rabat International Film Festival for Human Rights, 2012, Morocco

Ahmed Attia Award for the Dialogue of Cultures at MEDIMED 2012, Spain

Best documentary at Jewish Eye Festival, 2012, Israël

Best First Film at Tanger National Film Festival, 2013, Morocco

Best documentary at the International Berber Film Festival, 2013, France

Best documentary, Audience Award and Press Prize at Nador Common Memory Film Festival, 2013, Morocco

Eden award for best documentary at Lumières d’Afrique festival, 2013, France