HIDING AND SEEKING
US 2003; 90 min.
English/Yiddish/Polish w/ subtitles Directors: Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky
Northwest Premiere!
6:00 PM, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, PACIFIC PLACE

How did some Jews who experienced the Holocaust maintain their faith in God? Hiding and Seeking tells the story of a father (co-director Menachem Daum) who tries to alert his two sons to the dangers of insularity and intolerance. Daum’s sons, both full-time Yeshiva students in Jerusalem, call him “a doubter and a seeker,” but he’s troubled by their sense of religious certainty, and by an Orthodox world that Daum finds increasingly hostile to outsiders. The answer, he decides, lies in a family trip to Poland, where his sons may meet the Christian farmers who saved the life of their maternal grandfather during World War II. What follows is what the Village Voice calls “that rarest of travel films, one that makes the gradual voyage of a soul toward enlightenment palpable.”

Special Guest, Director, Oren Rudavsky

Community Partners:
Anti-Defamation League, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center

www.hidingandseeking.com