Atlanta Jewish Film Festival: Soda

In 1950s Israel, a beautiful seamstress joins a community of Holocaust survivors, captivating a former partisan and igniting whispers about her rumored past as a Nazi collaborator. When Eva (Rotem Sela) arrives at a coastal kibbutz, Shalom (Lior Raz), a WWII resistance fighter and factory foreman, is rapt by her beauty and vitality. As the tight-knit residents wrestle with their scars and secrets, Shalom is torn between his passion for enigmatic Eva and his duty to uncover the truth about her past. Tensions mount as talk of Eva’s role as a Kapo spreads, forcing an impossible choice on Shalom. This visually arresting, melancholic drama interweaves themes of love, guilt, and survival, inspired by filmmaker Erez Tadmor’s grandfather’s life.