Distribution Territory/ies:
Austria
Belgium
Switzerland
Germany
Finland
Netherlands

Call Nº: 32/2004

Call Nº: 27/2007

International Title: Live and become

Coproducing Country/ies:  France  Italy  Israel  Belgium 

Production Company/ies: Elzevir Films

Website: www.elzevirfilms.fr

Company/ies Who Received The Support:  Elzevir Films

Director: Radu Mihaileanu

Script: Radu Mihaileanu / Alain-Michel Blanc

Cast: Roschdy Zem / Yael Abecassis

Synopsis: 1984: Thousands of Africans from 25 countries die of starvation or end up in camps, in Sudan. On a decision from Israel and the United States, an operation is carried out which consists in bringing thousands of Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. A Christian mother encourages his child to claim he is Jewish so as to escape from death and starvation. The child, registered as an orphan, is adopted in Tel-Aviv and grows up with the fear that his lie should be discovered. Neither a Jew, nor an orphan, only black.