DVD

Shalom Bakou

This documentary by Murielle Levy will take you from the capital city Bakou to the mountains of Guba and Ogouz. The people encountered during this trip all testify of their love for Azerbaijan and for the mutual respect in which live the various religious communities in this region …

Simha

A film by Jérôme Blumberg, produced by Gabriel Chabanier, which highlights the uncommon career of the famous ethnomusicologist Simha Arom …

Trésors du cinéma yiddish [Treasures of Yiddish cinema]

4 emblematic films of Yiddish cinema, made mainly in Poland, Russia and the USA between 1930 and 1950. More than 10 hours of stories and Yiddish music, often unpublished …

Matrouz – Artistic creation – Music, languages, theater

Instinctively reconnecting with the Judeo-Arabic cultural heritage linked to the Hebrew, Muslim and Christian melting pot of multicultural Andalusia, Simon Elbaz was inspired by Matrouz - in Arabic, that which is embroidered - to create a new art form where languages, music and theater are intertwined …

Standing on the shoulders of Sholem Aleichem

During a trip through Europe between September 2013 and February 2013, Jean-Gabriel Davis met young people involved in the renewal of Yiddish culture in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Romania. …

Le bled

In this mute movie, Jean Renoir evokes Algeria in the times of colonization, with a love story. …

Ciao Habiba !

A few months after the Tunisian Revolution, a filmmaker comes back to her native country. She looks for a Tunisian diva, Habiba Messika, a woman too free, a singer, actress, burned by at the end of the 1930’s by one of her many lovers …

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