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In 1984, the Beta Israel—a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains—began a secret and dangerous journey of escape. Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then 10 years old, was among them. In this film, he breaks his 20-year silence about the kidnapping he endured as a child in Sudan during his community’s exodus out of Africa. This life-defining event launches an inquiry into identity, leading him to African, Asian and Latino Jews in Israel and the U.S.
400 MILES TO FREEDOM is a documentary that chronicles co-director Avishai Mekonen's exploration of what it takes to claim one’s own identity.
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FILM PREVIEW
400 MILES TO FREEDOM:
A DANGEROUS JOURNEY OF ESCAPE
AVISHAI MEKONEN
Mon, May 14 7:00pm
Jewish Community Center San Francisco
3200 California Street
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Call the box office at 415-292-1233
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Migrations of the Sacred: Spiritual Practices Across the Diaspora
400 Miles to Freedom
May 13, 2012, 2:00pm
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street (at Third)
San Francisco, CA
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Africa World Documentary Film Festival
400 Miles to Freedom
May 4, 2012, 3:00pm
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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A Screening and Talk with Director,
Avishai Mekonen
400 Miles to Freedom
April 30, 2012, 7:00pm
B'nai Jeshrun
88th Street Sanctuary
New York
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Africa World Documentary Film Festival
400 Miles to Freedom
April 28, 2012, 9:50pm
Spencer Museum of Art
1301 Mississippi St.
Lawerence, KS
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Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
400 Miles to Freedom
March 20, 2012, 3:30pm
March 21, 2012, 6:30pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY
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Africa World Documentary Film Festival
400 Miles to Freedom
February 25, 2012, 4:00pm
Missouri History Museum
5700 Lindell Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO
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Museum of Tolerence and Beta Israel North America
400 Miles to Freedom
February 23, 2012, 7:00pm
Museum of Tolerance
226 E 42nd St
Manhattan, NY
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