Filmmaker Naftaly Gliksberg sets out to investigate what anti-Semitism looks like today, crossing two continents to see how people react to direct questions about their attitudes towards Jews, Israel and the notion that there is such a thing as anti-Semitism. It is a startling personal journey of painful discoveries as he explores representations and impressions of Jews and Israelis around the world. Anti-Semitic stereotypes vary in the forms they take: they are often subtle, but the filmmaker comes face to face too with cold hatred packaged in eloquent rhetoric. As he visits individuals in Poland, France, the United States and Germany, Gliksberg discovers that people’s responses to his pointed questions are often a mixture of their own culture, some version of history and a certain collective psychology. LOOK INTO MY EYES shows us that anti-Semitism’s existence is disguised at times, but it is still often alarmingly present.
Filmmaker Naftaly Gliksberg in person