Archive - Festival 42

  • Archive - Festival 42
  • Director: Shmuel Beru
  • Israel, Ethiopia 2026
  • 87 minutes
  • Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

​In 1973, the Jewish community of the village of Gonderchomriam in Ethiopia is preparing for a dangerous journey on foot through Sudan to the Land of Israel. Yitzhak (58), an independent farmer and owner of a successful homestead, refuses to leave his hard-earned land and crops, to disconnect from the soil where he grew up, and to set off on a journey into the unknown. His stance leads to a fierce conflict with his wife Sarah (45), who is determined to hit the road with their three children. However, the family's entanglement in a blood feud forces Yitzhak to send Sarah and the children on the journey to Sudan en route to Israel, and to recalculate his life's path.

​Thus begins a grand family saga that becomes part of the heroic immigration story of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.


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  • Director Shmuel Beru
  • Production Shmuel Beru, Gil Roee
  • Script Shmuel Beru
  • Cinematography Itzik Portal, Ori Ackerman, Ran aviad, Yoram Milo
  • Editing Yitzhak Zachiek, Yonatan Amir, Amir Stoler
  • Sound Design Nati Zeidshat
  • Music Didi Erez
  • Actors Demoz Goshma Tafari, Maseret Hewat Azene, Yabsira Taklu Gabre, Matias Bayu Hailu, Avino Beru, Yuval Segal, Ruth Asarsai
  • Casting Negistey Beru, Shmuel Beru
  • Source Leeyou Productions
  • Produced with support by The Joint Venture of Gesher Multicultural Film Fund and Avi Chai | Maimonides Fund, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project, Mifal HaPayis
  • Distributor Transfax Film Productions ltd
  • Communications director Ran Rahav - Communications

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