Films proposed around the commemoration of January 27, 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 because he is Jewish and interned at the Pithiviers camp. On June 25, 1942, he was deported to the Auschwitz camp. 70 years later, he tells how he managed to survive four years of internment and deportation. This documentary focuses on the conditions of this survival and the gaze of a 100-year-old man who looks back at his destiny and that of his family, leading to live one of the greatest tragedies of humanity.

With the participation of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée and the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

Zakhor by Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir

France, 1996, 22 minutes

Short film on the transmission of memory, the memory of Jewish individuals and families who were victims of Nazism, whether or not all their members perished. According to the poet Benjamin Fondane, it is an evocation of the victims in the fullness of their "human face", and not a documentary on Nazism or the Shoah. The images of camps, corpses or faces behind the barbed wire speak exclusively of the executioner. The subject of this film is to restore to the victims their identity as alive, to capture the intensity of the presence of men, women, children, a people whose we wanted to remove all traces.

Screening of the film Voyage by Emmanuel Finkiel

from January 27 to February 3, 2021

France, fiction, 105 min, the Fish Films, 1999.

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