Ladino, a language almost extinct...

Ladino, heritage of our ancestors, on the Sephardic-Jew side [my mom's], is a treasure nowadays, they were expulsed from the Iberic Peninsula in 1492 by the Catholic Christians, and never came back, they did love their land, but they were evicted, this language is what we have from them: let's give it a chance!

Ladino is the ancient Spanish of the Middle Ages in which the culture of the Jews of Spain developed and thrived. After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, the exiles continued to preserve the language in every place where they established a community, from Greece, Italy and Turkey, through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and North Africa.

On a singing tour in Spain, Yasmin connects with her identity as a Jew whose ancestors were expelled 500 years earlier, and she finds her destiny.



AWARDS & FESTIVALS

Toronto JFF
San Jose JFF
Sepharadic Jewish Film Festival 2008, New York
Jewish Motifs Film Festival 2007, Poland - Bronze Warsaw Phoenix Award
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, U.S.A
Ukrainian International Documentary Film Festival 2007, Ukraine
Desert Jewish Film Festival, U.S.A
MUSIC ON FILM - FILM ON MUSIC (MOFFOM) -Prague
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, Israel
International Film and Music Festival, Ashdod, Israel