Director Profile
Gabriela Böhm
Position: Director
Country: United States
Producer/Director Gabriela Böhm produced and directed Passages, which won Best Documentary at the Woodstock and Tambay Film Festivals. This personal film was a search into her family's history in an attempt to pass on its legacy to her unborn son. She produced, directed, wrote and edited her first film, Voice-less, which screened at film festivals throughout the U.S. She also produced The Wild Side, a short documentary on the war on drugs in Brazil. A native of Argentina, she studied film, photography, painting, sculpture and art history in Israel before coming to the United States.
Gabriela will be in attendance in Berkeley and San Rafael screenings.
Films in the Festival
Longing, The: The Forgotten Jews of South America
Five hundred years after the Spanish Inquisition, descendants of crypto-Jews in South America attempt to affirm their Jewish faith against all odds.