The Pageant (2020)

The Pageant

Since 2011, the International Christian Embassy, an evangelist organisation, has been sponsoring the organisation of a beauty contest in Haifa reserved for female survivors of the Holocaust living in a retirement home. Following the journey of Sophie Leibowitz, competing for the 2016 title, Eytan Ipecker questions the “showbusinessification“ of the memory of the Shoah for polit...