2008 Great Lakes Film Festival 

 

 

 

Operation Promise: Exodus from Ethiopia

Documentary Short

Director: Dina Kadisha

Run Time: 25 mins

 

 

 

Synopsis:  

 

Dina Kadisha, a 21 year-old American girl, ventures into the shantytowns of Gondar and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to encounter one of the most compelling survival stories of our time; A modern day exodus of the Ethiopian Jews to freedom in Israel. Operation Promise, an initiative of the United Jewish Communities and the United Jewish Federations of North America, together help bring an ancient Jewish community back from the edge of government-imposed exile and starvation and resettles them into the land of Milk and Honey.

 

 

 

Starring: 

 

 

Dina Kadisha
Lead Actor; Voice-Over

 

 

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