Aliyah DaDa
Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema
December 2 - 7, 2015
Unfolding like a fairy tale, this rich, visually captivating documentary about the reality of Jewish life in Romania in the 20th century is not without its dark revelations, including the infamous trade of Romanian Jews to Israel during Ceaușescu’s regime.
In her debut documentary, Oana Giurgiu, a non-Jewish Romanian raised under the supreme Communist truth, sets out on a journey to uncover the reality behind the Romanian Jews aliyah (the return to the Holy Land). This incredibly rich story also touches on the adventure of the first settlers who abandoned their modern lives in Eastern Europe at end of the 19th century for a stark existence in a hostile Palestine. Unfolding something like a fairy tale, Aliyah DaDa is not without its dark revelations, including the infamous trade of Romanian Jews to Israel during Ceaușescu’s regime, and its captivating visual style—interviews and archival footage interlinked with Dadaist installations and brisk photo collages—pays tribute to two pioneers of that movement, the Romanian Jews Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco.
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