Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival

New Mexico Jewish Journal

03 Oct 2026 — 2 min read

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The Long Journey Home

"... powerful ..."
Jerusalem Post

Brings Untold Stories of a Vanishing Community to the Screen.
Jerusalem Post

3:30 PM Sunday, November 15th 2026 to 5:30 PM Sunday, November 15th
Center for Contemporary Arts

The Untold Story of the Jews of Iraq.

Tracing its roots to the Babylonian exile, Iraq’s Jewish community—the world’s oldest—numbered 180,000 at its peak in the 1940s. By the 2000s, it had completely vanished. Culminating twenty years of research, The Long Journey Home is a landmark documentary uncovering this dramatic rise and tragic fall.

From the community’s Golden Age and the brutal WWII Farhud pogrom to the mass exodus, Israeli transit camps (Ma’abarot), and final dissolution in Baghdad, the film weaves rare archival footage with intimate interviews, including the director’s father. The result is a groundbreaking, emotional cinematic chronicle of displacement, identity, and memory.

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Jewish Federation of El Paso and Las Cruces
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New Mexico Jewish Historical Society
Hamakom Passionate Judaism in Santa Fe
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