Souvenirs

Directed by Shahar Cohen & Halil Efrat * (Israel, 2006) * 75 minutes * Hebrew with English subtitles

A charming, funny and touching father/son journey in search of the "souvenirs" the father may have left with local girls during his service in the Jewish Brigade while stationed in Amsterdam during WW II. Beginning in Israel and continuing through Italy, Germany and ending in Holland with a surprising discovery, the film exposes a complex father-son relationship and raises universal questions and thoughts about the tension between myths of bravery and reality and between memory and historical truth.

Winner of San Francisco International Film Festival 2007, Winner of DocAviv 2006, Israeli Academy Award for best documentary 2006, Second Audience Choice award of IDFA (Amsterdam) 2006.