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Abe

German title: Soulfood – Familie geht durch den Magen
Russian title: Запретная кухня
Original title: Abe

Youth movie – USA, Brazil
Production year: 2018
Movie length: 85 minutes

Director: Fernando Grostein Andrade
Writer: Lameece Issaq, Jacob Kader
Cinematograph: Blasco Giurato
Music: Gui Amabis

Movie description:

12-year-old Abe has grown up in Brooklyn the son of a Palestinian father and a Jewish-Israeli mother. His parents raised him irreligiously, but both sets of grandparents are believers – some call him Abraham, others Ibrahim. There are many conflicts, in particular when the extended family gathers around the table on public holidays. Escaping them, Abe finds a new friend in a Brazilian street food seller.
Director and Youtube activist Fernando Grostein, himself having roots in a multicultural family of Holocaust survivors, processes his own experiences in this lively tragicomedy about identity. Trusting the aesthetics of modern visual language, he illustrates that good food has the power to bring together people from different backgrounds and reconcile them.

Abe is a 12-year-old half Israeli and half Palestinian kid from Brooklyn driven by his passion for food, who has never had a dinner without a family fight. Abe escapes from a stupid summer cooking camp and is mentored by the Afro Brazilian Chef Chico, who specializes in serving fusion food at pop up food fairs. One side of the family prefers to call him Avraham (in Hebrew), the other side Ibrahim (in Arab), while his agnostic atheist parents call him Abraham, in English. But he prefers Abe, just Abe.

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