The Ancestral Sin (2017)

The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the "population dispersal" policies in the first two decades of independence. The director's family, like others, was taken to Yeruham, a development town in the Negev desert. Their personal stories recount of the price immigrant-families pay and the price still paid by Israeli society, unwilling to deal head-on with those early years and forgotten towns.

Released Jan. 1, 2017 109 min None+

Genres: Documentary, History

Keywords: mdblist.three-actors, imdb.moroccan-jews, imdb.israeli-society, imdb.social-inequality, imdb.periphery, imdb.israeli-conflict, imdb.social-injustice

Country: Israel
Production Country: Israel
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic