20 Years Later ...

197756 min 15 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Jacques Bensimon

Production: Paul Larose

Script: Jacques Bensimon

Moroccan independence from France, and Arab nationalism encouraged by Israel's existence as a state, forced many North African Jews to emigrate. This film is about the Moroccan Jews who have come to Québec since 1956. It explodes the myth of Jewish unity, showing the Moroccans caught between the Ashkenazy Jews, English-speaking and long established, and the French-speaking Québécois. The film asks whether the Sephardic Jew can be Jewish and Québécois at the same time.

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  • Social Issues > Identity and Survival
  • Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Integration of Immigrants in QuebecJewish CommunityQuébec
  • Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > JudaismMulticulturalism
  • Diversity > Identity
  • History and Citizenship Education > Population and Settlement (1608-present)
  • Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage

Credits


director
Jacques Bensimon
writer
Jacques Bensimon
editing
Jacques Bensimon
producer
Paul Larose
photography
François Beauchemin
sound
Serge Beauchemin
sound editing
Paul Demers
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel
music
Alain Clavier
Jacques Harroch