Films proposed around the commemoration of 27 January 1945

On the occasion of the international day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, we offer you two films

Broadcast from January 27 to February 3, 2021

I will come back from Jean Barat 

2015, France, 1h07, documentary, produced by J.W Production – Jacques Wenig & Injam Production – Marc Andréani.

Synopsis: In May 1941, aged 28, Zysman Wenig is arrested in Paris by the French police for being a Jew and interned at the Pithiviers camp. On 25 June 1942, he was deported to the Auschwitz camp. 70 years later, he recounts how he managed to survive four years of internment and deportation. This documentary focuses on the conditions of this survival and on the view of a 100-year-old man who looks back at his own destiny and that of his family, leading him to experience one of the greatest tragedies of humanity.

With the participation of the National Center for Cinema and Animated Image and the support of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.

Zakhor by Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir

France, 1996, 22 minutes

Short film on the transmission of memory, of the remembrance of Jewish people and families victims of Nazism, whether all their members perished or not. According to the poet Benjamin Fondane, this is an evocation of the victims in the fullness of their “man’s face”, not a documentary on Nazism or the Shoah. Images of the camps, corpses or faces behind the barbed wire speak exclusively about the executioner. The subject of this film is to restore to the victims their identity as living beings, to grasp the intensity of the presence of men, women and children, of a people from which it was intended to make all traces disappear.

Screening of Voyage by Emmanuel Finkiel

January 27 to February 3, 2021

France, fiction, 105 mn, les Films du Poisson, 1999.

With Voyages, Emmanuel Finkiel delivered a first feature film with an impressive power of suggestion and great mastery. Three portraits of women haunted by impossible loss and linked by the same gap, that of the Shoah, in three countries: Poland, France and Israel.