The Idan Raichel Project's Journey to Ethiopia
Director: TOMER HEYMANN
Producer: ZAFRIR KOCHANOVSKY, MIRI EZRA – TTV PRODUCTIONS
Cinematography: LAVI BEN-GAL
Editing: LAVI BEN-GAL
Music: IDAN RAICHEL
Research: TALI SHAMIR-WERZBERGER
With the support of :
Avi Chai Foundation/Keshet
Director: TOMER HEYMANN
Producer: ZAFRIR KOCHANOVSKY, MIRI EZRA – TTV PRODUCTIONS
Cinematography: LAVI BEN-GAL
Editing: LAVI BEN-GAL
Music: IDAN RAICHEL
Research: TALI SHAMIR-WERZBERGER
With the support of :
Avi Chai Foundation/Keshet
The popular Israeli band – Idan Raichel Project – appear in Ethiopia for the first time, but their concert in Addis Ababa is more than just another performance, it is also a journey back to a homeland for two of the band’s lead singers – Cabra Casay and Avi Vograss Vesa, who are both Ethiopian Israelis.
For Cabra and Avi, this journey raises questions of racism and self-identity and reawakens the pains of migration, which are still present, even after many years of living in Israel. The film explores the characters’ relationship with the leader of their band Idan Raichel, a native Israeli, as well as their relationship with the homeland which they are separated from yet remains forever present in their minds and hearts.
Amos Noi, Haokets
10 October 2007 Haokets: “News from the melting pot: On Tomer Heymann’s new film Black Over White” Film review (Israel, Hebrew)