Live and Become to be screened at the 15th Annual Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles

Photo Courtesy of Menemsha Films, Inc.

Above: Lovers, Shlomo (Sirak Sabahat) and Sarah (Roni Hadar) walking arm-in-arm on the beach.

The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s parting request that he “go, live, and become.” Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love – both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother – he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own.

The movie will screen at the 15th Annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 11 @ 6:35pm and Monday, Feb 12 @ 8:35pm.

Click here to watch the trailer.