Letter To My Tribe: A Video Essay by b.h. Yael

Letter To My Tribe
Premieres at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival

September 28, 2024, 12pm
TIFF Lightbox
Tickets available here at TPFF

Co-Presented by:
Jewish Faculty Network | Jews Say No To Genocide | V Tape | United Jewish People’s Order | Film Workers for Palestine | Independent Jewish Voices | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre | Queers for Palestine | Faculty for Palestine | Toronto Queer Film Festival | Art & Social Change (OCADU) | South Asian Visual Arts Centre

Letter To My Tribe addresses a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine?

Over many years my mother and I have had numerous arguments which form the backbone of this video essay.

Interviews with journalists, activists and a rabbi are interwoven with documentation of actions in the West Bank, family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland.

Editor: Dennis Day | Music: David Wall | Sound Design: Scott Purdy
Admin Assistance: Kat Kleine
Poster Design: Niko Block

Participants in the Discussion:
Yaara Benger Alaluf | Daria Carmon | Omri Eran Vardi | Itai Feitelson | Neta Golan | Amira Hass | Guy Hirchfield | Hagit Ofran | Atalia Omer | Ilan Pappe | Brant Rosen | Bob Suberi | Oren Ziv

b.h. Yael is a Toronto based filmmaker and installation artist. Yael’s films have exhibited nationally and internationally, and have shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to community and activist groups, as well as at various educational venues. She is a recipient of numerous arts grants and awards. Yael’s films are distributed by Vtape and The b.h. Yael Collection streams online through Cinema Politica. A book about her work, Family States, edited by Mike Hoolboom and published by Conversalon was released in 2021. Yael is Professor of Integrated Media at OCAD University.