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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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Subject categories
- 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