Raymonde Abecassis

En 1984, des milliers d'Africains de 26 pays frappés par la famine se retrouvent dans des camps au Soudan. A l'initiative d'Israël et des Etats-Unis, une vaste action est menée pour emmener des milliers de Juifs éthiopiens vers Israël.Une mère chrétienne pousse son fils de neuf ans à se déclarer juif pour le sauver de la famine et de la mort. L'enfant arrive en Terre Sainte. Déclaré orphelin, il est adopté par une famille française sépharade vivant à Tel-Aviv. Il grandit avec la peur que l'on découvre son double-secret et mensonge : ni juif, ni orphelin, seulement noir. Il découvrira l'amour, la culture occidentale, la judaïté mais également le racisme et la guerre dans les territoires occupés.

A family of Iraqi-Israelis, each with his or her own weaknesses and determination, gathers for an Independence Day picnic. Their background stories are presented, reaching back as little as a few days or as far back as the War of Independence and the old country before that, and interlocking in ways that even they never realize.

In a small agricultural village in northern Israel, on the day of the middle-sister's wedding, Maya, the youngest of the three sisters, arrives to the celebration with Alon, a sharp Israeli businessman living in London. Alon's enchantment with the close-knit family, the simplicity of village life and serene landscape, opens his heart to an almost unattainable closeness with Tamar, the oldest sister, and re-acquaintance with his alienated father.

This is a period family drama that takes place in Jerusalem right before the political uprising of 1977

Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger. "You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy," Raymonde says, and for the first time, they embark on a journey together: from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the dunes of Ashdod and back to Morocco, where the mother became the legendary Raymonde El Bidaoia - a world-famous Moroccan singer. As they journey, Yael discovers a woman who articulates her weaknesses and the complexities of her choices with keen self-awareness, even when mother and daughter are transposed, twined together by guilt, admiration, pain, and above all else - limitless love and music.