Freedom Runners

Description

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Official Selections
Woodstock Film Festival
Maine Jewish Film Festival
Memphis Jewish Film Festival
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
East Bay Int’l Jewish Film Festival
Boulder Jewish Film Festival

Synopsis

“We are coming to competitions and all the eyes are on us
because we are the best, not because the boys and girls are different.” -Rotem Genossar

Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose families fled their homeland and now live in Israel without any legal status. At first running is just a social activity for the students, but it quickly becomes a means to fight for their civil rights, part of a struggle to secure them a place of their own, out of the margins of Israeli society.

Director

David Wachsmann was born in northern Israel not far from the border with Lebanon and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem. In his films, David deals with social and political issues that motivate him to action. He creates out of a belief in the power of cinema to create even the slightest change of consciousness.