A woman on a bus tour of Poland is left behind at a Jewish cemetery. A Parisian widow receives a call from a man claiming to be her long-lost father. A newly arrived 85-year-old Russian immigrant wanders the streets of Tel Aviv looking for a distant cousin. A lost Eastern European Jewish world echoes in their actions, gestures and turns of phrase. The film quietly builds to a devastating finale that links the characters together in the most profoundly emotional sense.

Audience Score: 9.2/10

In 1919, following the guidance of their leader, a local governor named Semei Kakungulu, the Ugandan Abayudaya adopted all the observances of Judaism including circumcision at birth. In the 1970s, even in the face of rampant anti-Semitism under the reign of Idi Amin exemplified by torture and murder, many of the tribe held fast to Jewish practice and beliefs. In the 1980s with the help of the outside Jewish community from Israel and the United States, a number of small synagogues were built and a Torah donated. Today the Abayudaya keep kosher according to Talmudic Law, attend to the Jewish calendar of holidays and study the week's parshah. At the beginning of February of 2002, a Beit Din made up of three rabbis from the United States and one from Israel went to this community in Uganda. There, over a period of six days, they converted over 300 Abayudaya, welcoming them into the community of world Jewry. An inspiring documentary on the complicated nature of Jewish identity.

Audience Score: 9.0/10