Films
Here you’ll find a selection of films – some old, some new – about the Sephardim.
Beneath Another Sun
University of Miami professor of religious studies, Dr. Henry Green, documents the great uprooting of the Sephardi Jews and how a people were displaced from their native lands and scattered around the world.
Last Class in Baghdad
As life became unbearable for the shrinking Jewish community of Baghdad, a group of students danced the night away. Dressed in thin ties, and beehive hairdos, these kids were like teenagers all over the world listening to the latest 45’s. They all went to Frank Iny, the last Jewish school in Baghdad. It was their refuge in an increasingly dangerous world. 60 years later, they are reunited in a magical evening and marvel how they made it out alive.
A Story For Elina
A long lost picture brings back a boyhood in Baghdad. And a father finally shares memories of his tortuous past.
What We Left Behind
Out of thousands of Jewish religious artefacts recovered from Iraq, many were damaged beyond repair. What We Left Behind chronicles the final journey of forty-nine Torah scrolls framed in the turbulent history of the Iraqi Jewish people.
Seven Stories
Seven interlinking stories told Sephardi refugees from North Africa, the Middle East, and Iran who came to the UK in different waves of emigration. Produced by Sephardi Voices UK.
The Forgotten Refugees
The Forgotten Refugees is a film about the mass exodus of up to a million Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa in communities dating back more than three millennia. Who are these Jews? What precipitated their mass-exodus in the 20th century? Where did they go? And why do we not know these Jewish refugees existed?