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Phoenix

69 Minutes, 2017
Genre:
Documentary

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Photographer: Emmanuelle Mayer
Original Music: Alberto Shwartz
Languages: Hebrew, English
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Subtitles: Hebrew

Phoenix, 32, was born and raised in the African Hebrew Israelite community in the southern town of Dimona. At the age of three, his father was excommunicated after he had tried to blow the whistle on some of the community’s innermost secrets. Since then, local lore has it that the curse put on the father has passed on to his son. One of Phoenix’s uncles within this close-knit community preyed upon the boy’s loneliness and vulnerability and sexually molested him. Now, Phoenix lives with deep-seated PTSD. His love of sculpting and songwriting helps him maintain his sanity when the triggers and bad memories come rushing back and threaten to overwhelm him. Eventually, he decides to return to the community that turned its back on him, and to his parents who had failed to save him in time from his predatory uncle, in the hopes of untangling the story of his childhood and at last, put it behind him. The film was shown at the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival.

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