From the creators of the acclaimed documentary A Life Apart: Hasidism in America comes a new, deeply personal film - HIDING AND SEEKING: FAITH AND TOLERANCE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST.

Intended as the second part of a trilogy examining the lingering effects of the Holocaust on the Jewish community, HIDING AND SEEKING was born out of filmmaker Menachem Daum's growing concern about the insularity of the Orthodox Jewish community, typified by the prejudicial behavior and attitudes toward Gentiles exhibited by his parents, Holocaust survivors, and his own adult sons, Talmudic scholars living in Israel. To counter what he sees as their narrow-minded viewpoints, he takes his sons on a trip to Poland, regarded by many as one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe.

To Daum's sons, like many children of Polish Holocaust survivors, Poles are incurably anti-Semitic, and beyond redemption. Because of this, Menachem introduces them to the family who risked their lives to hide Menachem's father for more than two years during the Holocaust. This meeting and the tumultuous aftermath lead the sons to at least consider their father's viewpoint more seriously.

Over the course of its compelling story, HIDING AND SEEKING explores the Holocaust's effect on faith in God, and its impact on faith in our fellow humans. It embeds these issues in a deeply personal inter-generational saga of survivors, their children, and their children's children. Filmed in Jerusalem, Brooklyn, and Poland, the film focuses on the filmmaker's attempt to stop the transmission of hatred from generation to generation, at a time of a resurgent fundamentalism and religious hatred throughout the world.

The greatest present danger to humankind may be people who claim to be religious, but are blind to the divinity (or humanity) within each and every one of us. HIDING AND SEEKING responds to this blindness, presenting the possibility that one can embrace both the deepest religious convictions, and a profound sense of connectedness to every single human being.

"Highly Recommended! Profoundly moving... a significant examination of historical events and their legacy."—Educational Media Reviews Online

"Deeply moving... its examination of the long-lasting effects of evil on the psyche of its victims and their descendants is both thoughtful and much needed in these increasingly polarized times."—Hollywood Reporter

"HIDING AND SEEKING succeeds brilliantly in showing the profoundly complex effects of a Holocaust connection on three, and eventually four generations. A further notable contribution is its focus on religious aspects which are generally slighted or ignored in survivor and second generation narratives."—Michael Thayler, Professor of History, University of Santa Cruz

"A courageous trip into the morass of post-Holocaust faith, tribalism and intolerance, and generational perspectives... a heartfelt and rather brave film."—Newsday

"A wonderfully moving film anchored by a great subject - a skeptical Orthodox humanist."—Annette Insdorf, Author, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust

"Moving... starts with a question: 'How did some Jews who experienced the Holocaust maintain their faith in God?' What follows is that rarest of travel films, one that makes the gradual voyage of a soul toward enlightenment palpable." —Village Voice