Aida’s Secrets

Background

A web of family secrets unravels in this moving documentary following a family fractured by war. Two brothers, Izak and Shep, were born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and separated as babies, never told of the other’s existence. Nearly 70 years later, the discovery of family records leads the brothers to an emotional reunion with their elderly mother, Aida, who hid more from Izak and Shep than just each other.

Director

Alon Schwarz is an award-winning documentary director. In 2017, he directed and produced the feature documentary Aida’s Secrets, which premiered at Hot Docs, won the Audience Award at Tel Aviv’s Docaviv Festival, and was theatrically distributed in the United States and Israel

Year
2016

Film Length
1 hour 30 minutes

Director
Alon Schwartz and Shaul Schwartz

Screenplay
Alon Schwartz and Halil Efrat

Producers
Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri, Barak Heymann, Guy Lavie, Dana Stern, Alon Schwarz, Luke Boelitz, Christina Clusiau, Lilach Shamis

Cinematography
Christina Cluslau, Shaul Schwartz, Uriel Sinai, Yonatan Weitzman

Editing
Halil Efrat