Your planner helps you schedule your entire Jewish Internation Film Festival experience. It shows sessions you've saved, in a helpful timeline.
or to save your planner
Your Planner is empty.
Browse Films & Events
How many pickles are you giving
{film-title}?
Your details to confirm your vote.
“Even those already familiar with the Halimi case and with the history of anti-Semitism come away emotionally rattled.” — The Jewish Daily Forward
In this provocatively titled, Emmy Award winning documentary director Lewis Cohen (Cirque Du Soleil: Fire Within) delves deeply into untruth, using the tragic case of Ilan Halimi to debunk a flawed and erroneous stereotype. When 26-year-old mobile-phone salesman Ilan Halimi was kidnapped in Paris in 2006 and tortured for three weeks, his captors demanded $500,000 ransom from his working class family on the assumption that, being a Jew, Halimi must be wealthy. Cohen uses in-depth interviews with Halimi’s mother, journalists and legal representatives from both sides of the case to detail one of the most notorious hate crimes in French history, as well as one of the world’s most widespread misconceptions of Jewish culture.
Audience Pickles
2013
Lewis Cohen
Stay up to date with JIFF news and films during the year, and for regular updates and insider news during the festival period.
You can unsubscribe at any time. See our Privacy Policy.