Tinghir Jerusalem: Les echos du Mellah

In this award winning documentary, French film maker Kamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old Judeo-Berber culture of Tinghir, a village high in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and follows the trail of the village’s once substantial Jewish population to its émigrés and descendants in Israel. Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah was awarded ‘Best Film’ at the Rabat International Film Festival for Human Rights, 2012; ‘Best First Film’ at the Tangier National Film Festival, 2013; and ‘Best Documentary’ at the World Jewish Film Festival, 2012. An abridged 60 minute version of the film will be shown at the round-table. The film screening will be followed by a round-table discussion with an international panel of expert academics on some of the issues the documentary raises including displacement, migration, belonging and Jewish-Muslim relations in the past and present.