The Ancestral Sin

A somber, investigative documentary that unearths painful history through testimony, demanding close attention and leaving a lingering sense of injustice.

Directed by

David Deri

Starring

David Deri, Elisha Efrat, Erez Tzfadia

Overview

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.

How it feels

Dark, bleak, melancholic and earnest. Measured and demanding.

About

Politics, class, race, immigration

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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