American Birthright

AMC Veteran's 24 - Tampa

Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival

April 11, 2022 2:00 PM

 

Run Time 65 minutes / Documentary / Director Becky Bordo/ USA / 2021 / Language Hebrew with English Subtitles

Who hasn’t asked themselves the question “why be in a relationship?” Sure enough, filming in between her 20s and 30s, American Birthright’s director and producer Becky Tahel, doesn’t take any answer for granted, and even complicates the question by making a documentary about it. American Birthright is an intimate, deep and joyous investigation that starts by asking “why marry Jewish?” and ends up exploring the subtler inquiry “why be Jewish?”.