SFF-Why Do They Hate Us

Producer/director Alexandre Amiel was struck when shortly after the Charlie Hebdo attack, his 11-year-old son asked, “Why do they hate us Jews?” For Amiel, a veteran Canal+ reporter and founder of the news production company Camera Subjective, this was a call to action. His answer was to produce a series on racism in France, which was aired on French television and we present part of his trilogy relating to Anti-Semitism in France, with poignant interviews with Amiel’s family from Morocco and the perennial Jewish question, “when is it too dangerous for Jews to remain here?”

Director Alexandre Amiel will be present for a Q and A following the screening.

With short film prior:
The Pirate Captain Toledano (U.S.A., 2017) 10 min., English
The first film set in the little-know world of Jewish piracy in the Caribbean. On a 16th century pirate ship, a Jewish stowaway who fled the Inquisition wants to become a pirate to fight the Spanish. The captain must decide whether to make him a pirate... or make him walk the plank.