Letter to My Tribe + Panel

Co-presenting with Toronto Palestine Film Festival

Letter to My Tribe
97 minutes
b.h. Yael
Documentary
2024
Canada
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English, translated Hebrew & Arabic

Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who represents a more messianic perspective, and I have had numerous arguments, some recorded, some not. These form the backbone of this video essay in which Israelis and Jews, journalists, activists and a rabbi are interviewed, and in which documentation of actions on the ground, in the West Bank, are woven with more personal family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland.

World Premiere

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b.h. Yael is a Toronto based filmmaker and installation artist. Yael’s films have exhibited nationally and internationally, and have shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to community and activist groups, as well as at various educational venues. She is a recipient of numerous arts grants and awards. Yael’s films are distributed by Vtape and The b.h. Yael Collection streams online through Cinema Politica. A book about her work, Family States, edited by Mike Hoolboom and published by Conversalon was released in 2021.  Yael is Professor of Integrated Media at OCAD University.

Copresented by:

Jewish Faculty Network

Faculty for Palestine

V Tape

Jews Say No To Genocide

United Jewish People’s Order

Queers for Palestine

Film Workers for Palestine

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Independent Jewish Voice Toronto