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Being
Jewish in France
(France
2007)
Yves
Jeuland's sweeping documentary explores the rich and complex history
of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--beginning
with Revolutionary cries of Vive la France in Yiddish
through the explosive Dreyfus Affair, Vichy's murderous betrayal
during WWII, and the absorption of Jews from Arab countries in
the 1960s to charges of rising antisemitism in the 21st century.
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The
House on August Street
(Israel
2007)
The
remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly
rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them
from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger, founder of the
House of Love Children's Home, was quick to recognize the Nazi
threat and resolved to protect the 120 children under her care
on "August Street.”
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Settlement
(USA
2008)
Twelve
years after the release of his landmark film Shtetl,
Emmy-Award winning director Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of European
cinéma-vérité, returns to one of his favorite
subjects - the mystery of survival during the Holocaust. Settlement,
the most recent of Marzynski's critically-lauded autobiographical
films, benefits from the director's highly personal approach to
filmmaking and his subject.
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Dreyfus
Revisted:
A Current Affair
(Israel
2006)
The
Dreyfus Affair, one of history's most notorious cases of criminal
injustice and antisemitism, set off an international uproar that
served as a prelude to the Holocaust and as a catalyst to the
development of modern Zionism. Dreyfus
Revisited offers a cogent history of the affair
and explores its relevance to pressing contemporary concerns.
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Dear
Mr. Waldman
(Israel
2006)
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s
10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his parents
happy and compensate for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust.
The fragile equilibrium of Rivka and Moishe’s new, post-war
life begins to waver when Moishe convinces himself his son from
his first marriage, didn't actually die in Auschwitz...
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The
Last Jews of Libya
(USA
2007)
The
Last Jews of Libya
documents the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic
Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family
who lived in Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years. Thirty-six
thousand Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, today
none remain.
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2
or 3 Things I Know About Him
(Germany
2005)
Malte
Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent
Nazi who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947, focuses
on how his family grappleswith -or refuses to engage- the history
of their family and of Weimar and Nazi Germany more generally.
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