Middle Eastern Film Series: Live and Become (2005, Israel)

Please join the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Middle East Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government as our film series continues with a story of identity and young love.

The film will be shown on Wednesday, February 13th from 5:15 to 7:30 pm, in the Starr Auditorium in the Belfer Center, KSG (click here for a map). Complimentary pizza and soft drinks will be available starting at 5:00 pm.

Description: Shlomo is an Ethiopian boy airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 as part of Operation Moses. While neither a Jew nor an orphan, he is a seeking to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s wish that he live. Shlomo ultimately finds a new identity through the love of his old and new life.