Directed by Karen Goodman

United States, 2010

40 min.

English and Hebrew with English Subtitles

It’s impossible not to be profoundly moved by this Academy Award-winning documentary about Tel Aviv’s Bialik-Rogozin School, a K-12 public school that has opened its doors to students from 48 countries, including many refugees escaping nightmarish pasts. Every person featured in this film is a hero, from Mohammed, the big-hearted teen who fled Darfur after witnessing the execution of his father and grandmother-and who plans to return home after graduation and open a school-to Bialik-Rogozin’s bighearted teachers who work small miracles every day, transforming the lives of traumatized young people and helping them become happy, confident individuals. The school’s visionary principal makes an eloquent argument that our Jewish legacy demands we play an active role in solving the plight of displaced people. "We cannot change the past," she says. "We can live just the present and be optimistic that we can influence our future." -Hagar Scher

Academy Award Winner, 2011

DIRECTOR Karen Goodman invited.

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