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Winner, Best Documentary, Garden State Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Houston Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, San Diego Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Denver Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary, Tucson Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Washington Jewish Film Festival
Winner, Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Hungary’s Jews. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal – first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.
With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh.