Directed by Yvonne Andrä (in Germany) & Eyal Davidovitch (in Israel), 2022

Imagine this: a German-speaking girls choir from Weimar meets a Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking girls choir from Tel Aviv/Jaffa to learn and perform new songs composed by Alan Bern based on Yiddish poems by Kadya Molodovsky, a Polish-Jewish poet. In the process, they run head-first into their own ideas, hopes and fears about Germans, Jews, Israelis, Arabs, Yiddish, Hebrew, the Holocaust, and their own identities. The brainchild of Diana Matut and Andreas Schmitges, the Kadya Choir challenged 27 girls from very different backgrounds to learn about themselves and each other by living and traveling together while cooperating to turn a daring artistic vision into reality. This creatively imaginative film, shot on location in Israel and Germany, candidly shows the process every step of the way, from the first excitement of meeting and a girls’ night out on the beach in Tel Aviv to sobering encouters with religious division and the unfathomable shock of Buchenwald--and, finally, to the joyful success of the choir’s final performance.