There is No Way Back Home

There is No Way Back Home

2021 · 71 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

In 1958, Robert Gottlieb was forced to renounce his Romanian citizenship in order to migrate to Israel. 50 years later, his daughter Yaela (re)builds that route but her father’s story does not match the places she knew. Family mandates and ghosts of the past get materialized. Him from Lima and her from Buenos Aires, for the first time, find an undeniable gap that leads her towonder: who her father is

Directed by Yaela Gottlieb

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