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Monday, January 23 at 7:30pm Miami Beach JCC

Hungary | 82 minutes | 2022

Missing Tale

Southeast US Premiere

The fractured history of the Jews of Cochin, India is explored in this fascinating and utterly engrossing journey that takes viewers around the globe from Eastern Europe to Israel and India. Director Klára Trencsényi’s first impressions are formed by her encounter with Sarah Cohen, one of the last remaining members of the city’s once-thriving Paradesi Jewish community — Sephardic Jews who arrived in Cochin after the Spanish Inquisition. These initial perceptions are challenged when she meets Babu, a 60-year-old member of the Black Jewish Malabar community who are said to have arrived in Cochin thousands of years earlier, but who were considered inferior by the Paradesi Jews. Racism within the Cochin Jewish communities compels Klara to reflect on her own hidden Eastern European Jewish identity.

Director's Bio

Directed by Klára Trencsényi

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Klára Trencsényi is a director and cinematographer who has worked for more than a decade creating socially meaningful documentaries. She graduated from the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest as a Director of Photography. The Missing Tale is Klára’s second documentary feature film.

Cast and Credits

Director

Klára Trencsényi

Screenwriter

Klára Trencsényi

Cinematographer

Klára Trencsényi

Editor

Flóra Erdélyi

Cast

Sarah Cohen, Meydad Eliyahu, Thaha Ibrahim

Film Info

Year

2022

Country

Hungary

Run-time

82 minutes

Language

Hungarian, English, Hebrew with English subtitles
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