Louisville Jewish Film Festival

The Dove Flyer

Sunday, Feb. 21, 3:00

Congregation Adath Jeshurun

108 min. Israel

Reception following the film

Based on the best- selling novel, Farewell Bagdad by Eli Amir, the film tells the story of the most ancient Jewish community in the world, Iraq. Most of the Iraqi Jews in Bagdad in the 1950’s did not want to leave the land where they and their ancestors had lived for thousands of years.  Against this background, the coming-of-age tale of 16 year old Kabi is told.  Transformed from a studious boy, he becomes one of the central activists in the Zionist underground thus enabling the immigration of the Jews of Iraq to Israel. The story of Iraqi Jews who were forced to leave Iraq has never before been told in the cinema.