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Tomorrow, When the Apricots Bloom

Tuesday, March 9 at 7:30 PM

Tai Michael, Israel & France (English, Hebrew, French) I 2019 I 73 min

Shortly after the death of his uncles, Didier Frenkel descends into the basement of their shared home and finds a treasure: an archive of animated films from their former home in Egypt starring Mish-Mish Effendi, the Arab equivalent of Mickey Mouse. This is a remarkable Jewish world entirely unknown to most of us and only now being rediscovered in the Arab world.