Raymonde Abecassis

Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger. "You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy," Raymonde says, and for the first time, they embark on a journey together: from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the dunes of Ashdod and back to Morocco, where the mother became the legendary Raymonde El Bidaoia - a world-famous Moroccan singer. As they journey, Yael discovers a woman who articulates her weaknesses and the complexities of her choices with keen self-awareness, even when mother and daughter are transposed, twined together by guilt, admiration, pain, and above all else - limitless love and music.

This is a period family drama that takes place in Jerusalem right before the political uprising of 1977

События фильма происходят в конце 1984 года, когда руководителями государства Израиль было решено привезти на Святую Землю несколько тысяч репатриантов из Эфиопии, которые проживали в трудных условиях в пустыне. Больная женщина, спасая своего сына, посылает его в Эрец Исраэль, но сама остаётся в Эфиопии. В Израиле мальчика усыновляет семья выходцев из Туниса и вскоре он становится полноценным гражданином Израиля с гордым именем Шломо, несмотря на то, что мать воспитала его христианином. Он ощущает себя израильтянином, выходцем из Туниса, носителем французской культуры, не забывая о своих корнях. Впрочем, трудности абсорбции не миновали его. Он страдает от расизма, ему постоянно напоминают о тёмном цвете кожи.

In a small agricultural village in northern Israel, on the day of the middle-sister's wedding, Maya, the youngest of the three sisters, arrives to the celebration with Alon, a sharp Israeli businessman living in London. Alon's enchantment with the close-knit family, the simplicity of village life and serene landscape, opens his heart to an almost unattainable closeness with Tamar, the oldest sister, and re-acquaintance with his alienated father.

A family of Iraqi-Israelis, each with his or her own weaknesses and determination, gathers for an Independence Day picnic. Their background stories are presented, reaching back as little as a few days or as far back as the War of Independence and the old country before that, and interlocking in ways that even they never realize.