The remarkable story of Dr. Mohamed Helmy, the Muslim Egyptian doctor who became the only Arab recognized by Israel as a ‘Righteous Among the Nations.’ A proud humanist who freely criticized the Nazi regime, Helmy risked his life to save Anna Boros, a Jewish girl he knew, by dressing her in a hijab and pretending she was his niece. Shot on location in Berlin, the film incorporates rare photographs and archival footage of Berlin in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Director: Taliya Finkel

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, specializing in documentary cinema. . Most of my work deals with the borderlines of identity and of belonging. I see my personal experience as the primary basis of all that I create. To me every medium contains possibilities of documentation – photography, video, text etc. Therefore, everything I go through in life may be used as rushes for my next film. The inner world is equivalent to the outer world and therefore merits documentation no less.