The extraordinary story of Dr. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian doctor, who, posing as a Nazi supporter, rescued a Jewish girl disguised as a Muslim in Nazi Berlin. He is the first and only Arab to be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, but his family refused to accept the award due to political reasons and fear. Helmy’s nephew, Dr. Kotby is the first Arab to talk about the holocaust in a film.

The film grapples with the risk a moral person takes when he chooses to follow his conscience within the historical context of the Holocaust. At the same time, the film highlights the risk that Nasser, the Egyptian, is taking today by going against the general consensus in Egypt and accepting an honorary title from the State of Israel. Anna and the Egyptian Doctor presents a story that transcends the boundaries of time, religion, and politics.

Director: Taliya Finkel

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, specializing in documentary cinema. . Most of my work deals with the borderlines of identity and of belonging. I see my personal experience as the primary basis of all that I create. To me every medium contains possibilities of documentation – photography, video, text etc. Therefore, everything I go through in life may be used as rushes for my next film. The inner world is equivalent to the outer world and therefore merits documentation no less.