Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.
Samy Szlingerbaum
Director, Writer
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Public Speaking70%
Maternal Instinct71%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
A Plastic Ocean75%
McQueen74%
Harmontown66%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
The Class of ‘9271%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Night Will Fall76%
The Captains63%
180° South72%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
My Mom Jayne80%
Above Majestic73%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
