Directed by Radu Mihaileanu(Les Pygmées de Carlo, Train of Life), Live And Become was awarded the Label Europa Cinemas Award, The Panorama Audience Award and The Ecumenical Jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival and also went on to win Best Film at the Copenhagen International Film Festival. 

Starring Yaël Abecussis (Haïm ze Haïm, Alila) and Roschdy Zem (Dreams of Trespass) 'Live And Become' is a gripping and engaging tale of deception and survival that entwines the issues of politics, religious right, love and identity around the fate of one young boy. In 1984, displaced by civil war and famine, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians walked the long road to refugee camps in Sudan. Hidden among them were the Falashas, Ethiopian Jews and direct descendents of King Solomon. Israel airlifted the Falashas to a new life in Israel. In the mayhem, a starving Christian mother entrusts her 9-year old son with a bereaved Falasha mother. When the 'mother' of the newly named Schlomo (Agazai) dies, he is adopted by kind, liberal people. Wracked by his loss and the gravity of his secret, Schlomo struggles against his good fortune, unable to come to terms with a new country, a new culture and its own prejudices.