Aliyah DaDa (2014)

Trivia

• The title of the documentary has two meanings: “Aliyah” is the Jewish word for the emigration of the Jews towards Israel and “DaDa” is a reference to Dadaism, the artistic movement which was born after the First World War.
• The story is visually cut in the Dada style, as part of the tribute brought to its creators, Tristan Tzara and Marcel Iancu, two Jews originating from Romania.
• Oana Giurgiu confessed that she started being interested in this topic thanks to a song that she heard: an Israeli singer was telling the story of his father who had left from Romania. Searching for more information, she found out that the singer`s father was a Zionist and that he had written a memoir book.
• “From Romania to Zion” was the working title of this project that took four years to make.