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My Sister Banchiya
Dir.: Avigail Sperber | 24 minutes

My Sister Banchiya

Israel 1997 | 24 minutes | Hebrew

The story of Banchiya, a ten-year-old Ethiopian girl who immigrated to Israel at the age of three with her mother and three brothers, and was adopted by the Shperber family, Rabbi Daniel and Hanna. Banchiya and her brother were sent to a boarding school in Netanya and half a year later their mother died. After her death, the Shperber family, a religious family of 12 living in the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, adopted Banchiya as a daughter. The film touches on Banchiya's struggles in a white, religious society and in a family with many children. Bancia faces questions of identity and loyalty to the Ethiopian community