Charity Movie Festival

ISSJ has held a movie festival and bazaar twice a year, every June and October. The festival is to help spread the word about exactly what it is we do at ISSJ. We choose movies that will leave a strong impression in the hearts of the audience, and in that respect, leave the message of our organization in their hearts as well. We have received countless support from both volunteers and companies, and the money raised at the event goes towards aiding in the welfare of the children involved with ISSJ.

There will be various kinds of products at Bazaar on the day of the Festival, including crafts hand-made by volunteers and women in Asian countries, donations from supporting organizations, hand-made cakes and cookies, bags, wallets, greeting cards, and many others.
1 yen Community Chest has started in 1997 . We would like to ask for your continuous cooperation. We are also collecting unused Japanese stamps, postcards, and telephone cards.

The donations will be used for travel fee for repatriation of children of foreign nationals, intercountry adoptions, protection and assistance fee for abused foreign children and women residing in Japan.

Please join our next Charity Movie Festival and Bazaar at Kudan Kaikan, Tokyo

ISSJ 60th MOVIE FESTIVAL
Va, vis et deviens Live and Become 2010.6.18(Fri) 11:00 / 14:45 / 18:20 Kudan Kaikan Hall, Tokyo Admission Fee :Y1,000 (Tickets are sold in advance)

Story Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him tells him ggo, live, and becomeh as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries, not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.