MELBOURNE FILM PROGRAM / 30 APRIL - 12 MAY
SYDNEY FILM PROGRAM / 30 APRIL - 12 MAY
TICKETS AND VENUES
FROM THE SERIES DIRECTOR
CLASSIC CINEMAS
EVENT CINEMAS, BONDI JUNCTION
Melbourne
2016 is a unique moment in time when there is a surge of Holocaust related
stories being told by survivors and young filmmakers. Sat 30
8:50PM
Remember
12:00PM Claude Lanzmann:
Spectres of the Shoah*
1:45PM Last Folio
3:30PM Duchess of Warsaw
5:30PM A Man Can Make a
Difference
7:40PM Remember
Mon 2
7:30PM
6:30PM
7:30PM
Sun 1
12:00PM
1:30PM
3:30PM
6:00PM
Gold Will Set You Free
Song of Songs
Every Face Has a Name
Boris Dorfman a Mentsh
+ Quiet Gold
A Nazi Legacy:
What Our Fathers Did
Tue 3
Wed 4
The Roofer of Birkenau
Minkowski/Saga
Drawing against Oblivion*
Summer Solstice
11:00AM Remember
1:00PM The Cabaret of Death
3:00PM Beyond Paranoia: East and
West, the New Antisemitism
4:45PM Persona Non Grata
7:15PM Gitel
Mon 9
12:00PM
2:00PM
6:00PM
7:15PM
12:00PM
2:00PM
6:00PM
7:15PM
Last Folio
Duchess of Warsaw
Hitler’s Mein Kampf :
A Dangerous Book
Kapo in Jerusalem
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2:00PM A Nazi Legacy :
What Our Fathers Did
4:00PM Remember
6:00PM Minkowski/Saga
7:45PM Friends Forever
8:50PM
8:50PM
Every Face Has a Name
Remember
The Singing Abortionist
Persona Non Grata
The Prime Ministers:
The Pioneers
The Prime Ministers:
Soldiers and Peacemakers
12:00PM
1:35PM
3:35PM
5:20PM
7:10PM
Last Folio
My Italian Secret
Duchess of Warsaw
A Man Can Make a
Difference
Persona Non Grata
2:00PM
5:30PM
7:30PM
Minkowski/Saga
Line 41
A Nazi Legacy:
What Our Fathers Did*
2:00PM
5/10/20 film passes available online and at the box office.
End of the Line :
Seeshaupt
Surviving Skokie
Song of Songs
7:15PM
Remember
The Singing Abortionist
Kapo in Jerusalem
Drawing Against Oblivion
Hitler’s Mein Kampf :
A Dangerous Book
Remember
Thu 12
The Roofer of Birkenau
Drawing Against Oblivion 6:30PM
Summer Solstice
8:50PM
Thu 5
The Prime Mjnisters:
The Pioneers
The Prime Ministers:
Soldiers and Peacemakers
Remember
Sun 8
Remember
6:15PM
7:40PM
The Holocaust Film Series is presented in cultural partnership with the Jewish
Holocaust Centre and the Sydney Jewish Museum
Event Cinemas, Level 8, Westfield Shopping Centre, Bondi Junction
(02) 9300 1500
Full $20 / Cinebuzz Students & Seniors $18
5 film passes available at the box office only.
Vos is VOD?
(Video on Demand)
from your computer, iPad, TV or even your phone.
Did you miss something at a past festival
in Australia or New Zealand?
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Remember
*Screening with an event or speaker. Please see jiff.com.au/events for details
A series of films from around the
racism, survival and migration.
or want to recommend a film to friends anywhere
Boris Dorfman a Mentsh +
Quiet Gold
The 2016 Holocaust Film Series gratefully acknowledges the
assistance of our cultural partners, our major supporter Ironman
4 X 4, David Simons and our anonymous supporters.
Holocaust Film Series
2016
globe dedicated to stories of persecution,
You can now watch JIFF movies at home,
Gold Will Set You Free
Minkowski/Saga
Friends Forever
Fri 6
2:00PM
–Eddie Tamir
Sydney
Wed 11
2:00PM
6:00PM
Presents –
Tickets via www.jiff.com.au or at the venue box office
Tue 10
2:00PM
6:00PM
7:30PM
We are privileged to present 30 new films from 15 countries that are relevant
today and inspire us to choose life.
Melbourne tickets available via jiff.com.au, by phone or at the
venue box office
Full ticketing details jiff.com.au
Pracht Inn
Remember
Claude Lanzmann:
Spectres of the Shoah*
Wed 4
2:00PM
6:00PM
7:45PM
Lido Cinemas, 675 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn (03) 8658 0000
*Limited screenings at Lido
Full $20 / Concession $18/ Classic Members $17
Mon 9
6:00PM
7:30PM
Tue 3
2:00PM
6:00PM
8:00PM
12:00PM Goodbye Theresienstadt
1:15PM
Beyond Paranoia: East and
West, the New Antisemitism
3:00PM
The Cabaret of Death
5:00PM
Remember
7:00PM
Gitel
Classic Cinemas, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick,
(03) 9524 7900
Vot are you vaiting for? Get vatching!
Sat 7
Sat 7
7:00PM
Remember
Mon 2
LIDO CINEMAS
8:50PM
Sun 8
Sun 1
2:00PM
6:00PM
7:30PM
Thu 12
6:30PM
12:00PM Line 41
2:00PM Pracht Inn
My Italian Secret
Friends Forever
Surviving Skokie
Song of Songs*
Tue 10
Thu 5
Fri 6
Claude Lanzmann:
Spectres of the Shoah
Remember
Sun 8
12:00PM
12:00PM Pracht Inn
2:00PM
1:45PM End of the Line:
6:00PM
Seeshaupt
3:45PM My Italian Secret
7:20PM
5:50PM Remember
7:45PM Goodbye Theresienstadt *
Wed 11
12:00PM
2:00PM
6:00PM
7:30PM
Sat 30
Sat 7
jiff.com.au/shop
Melbourne & Sydney
30 April — 12 May 2016
For more info, visit jiff.com.au/hfs
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D RAW I N G AGA I N S T OB L I V I ON
GOODBYE THE RE SI E NSTADT
A MAN CAN MAKE A DI FFEREN CE
B U LGA R IA , USA / 201 5 / DO CUME NTARY / 6 2 MI N
GE R M A N Y / 2 0 1 5 / D OCU M E N TA RY / 6 7 M IN
D EN MA R K / 2015 / D O C U MEN TA RY / 59 MI N
G ER MA N Y / 2014 / D O C U MEN TA RY / 102 M IN
This New York Festival Gold Medal winning documentary showcases the
charcoal drawings of Austrian artist Michael Bockelmann who seeks to give
new life to countless children who were murdered in the death camps and those
who narrowly escaped.
The poignant story of six Jewish Danish children’s survival in Theresienstadt. An
emotional journey across Europe today takes them back to the camp that was their
prison during childhood.
During the Second World War, out of 22 countries occupied by the Nazis,
only one small nation succeeds in saving their entire Jewish community.
BE YOND PA RA NO I A: E AS T AND WE S T,
THE NEW ANTI S E M I TI S M
IS RA EL / 2015 / DOCUME NTARY / 8 3 MI N
Using richly layered interviews with Jewish writers, academics and journalists,
veteran Australian filmmaker Monique Schwartz explores the history of
anti-Semitism worldwide, exposing sinister new variations of this age old
hatred in the modern day.
Benjamin Ferencz , Chief Prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Nuremberg Trial
at the age of 27, goes on to lead the negotiations for German compensation
and is instrumental in setting up the International Criminal Court. This is his
inspiring story.
T H E ROOFER OF BIRK EN AU
GERM AN Y / 2014 / D O CUM EN TARY / 63 M IN
89-year-old Mordechai Ciechanower, the Roofer of Birkenau, steps back in
time to recreate his experiences in multiple Nazi extermination camps,
culminating in an unexpected meeting with his father, weeks after being freed.
HI TL E R’S ME I N KAMP F: A DANGE ROUS B OOK
MI NKOW SKI / SAGA
T H E SIN GIN G A BORT ION IST
G ER MA N Y/ 2015 / D O C U MEN TA RY / 52 MI N
PO L A N D / 2013 / D O C U MEN TA RY / 85 M IN
CAN ADA / 2015 / D O CUM EN TARY / 63 M IN
The State of Bavaria prohibited Mein Kampf at the end of World War Two.
Now, in 2016, 70 years after the death of its author, Adolf Hitler, the book has
entered into the public domain raising pressing questions about how to deal
with this divisive document.
In Warsaw, celebrated French conductor Marc Minkowski uncovers the
fascinating past of his Jewish paternal ancestors, fervent Polish patriots,
who belonged to the elite of their country prior to WWII.
Holocaust survivor. Womanizer. Pro-choice crusader. Dr. Henry Morgentaler,
who passed away in 2013, is often referred to as the most loved and hated
man in Canada.
T H E D U C H E S S OF WA R SAW
A NAZI L E GACY: W HAT OUR FAT H ERS D ID
SON G OF SON GS
B ORIS DORF M AN A M E NTS H
F RA N CE / 2 0 1 4 / F E AT U R E / 8 6 M IN
U K / 2015 / F EAT U R E / 95 MIN
UKRAIN E / 2015 / FEAT URE / 76 M IN
G E R MANY, POL AND / 2 0 1 4 / DOCUME NTARY / 5 2 MI N
This surreal French film follows Valentin, a young painter unable to paint, as he
wanders the streets of a fantasised Paris with his grandmother Nina.
The story of her deportation unravels for the first time, bringing vivid colour to
his world again.
Sons of high ranking Nazi officials responsible for ghettos, concentration camps
and mass extermination grapple with the cold hard truth in starkly different
ways, one excusing and one abhorring their fathers.
From the acclaimed stories of Sholem Aleichem comes a quaint picture of
Jewish life at the turn of the 19th century. In a Jewish shtetl Shimek and Buzya
are ten years old, a prince and a princess from neighbouring palaces, sharing the
same yard. Winner of the prestigious Award of Ecumenical Jury at the Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival.
E N D OF T H E L I N E : S E E S H AU P T
JA PA N / 2015 / F EAT U R E / 13 9 M IN
90-year-old activist Boris Dorfman, the last person in his town still speaking
the almost extinct Yiddish, takes us on an enthralling trip to all the places of
horror and hope reflecting Jewish history in Lviv.
P E RSONA NON GRATA
Screening with
GE R M A N Y / 2 0 1 3 / D OCU M E N TA RY / 6 9 M IN
QUI E T G O LD
AUS TRAL IA / 2015 / DOCUME NTARY / 1 6 MI N
Reflecting upon intergenerational tension this short local documentary
explores the remarkable tenacity of the Yiddish language in Melbourne
In the final days of WWII a death train departs a death camp cramped with
4000 prisoners. Follow eyewitness accounts of this untold story of the five-day
odyssey to liberation in Seeshaupt.
E V E RY FACE H AS A N A M E
THE CA B A R E T O F DE ATH
POL A ND / 2014 / DO CUME NTARY / 9 4 MI N
Jewish artists in numerous concentration camps and ghettos across Europe
fight for survival using the only weapons available to them - humour, music
and theatre.
F R I E N D S F OR E V E R
This uplifting film is a rambunctious, disarming coming-of-age story of Ferry and
Alex who vow to be blood brothers for life when it is revealed that one of them is a
Jew and in grave danger of deportation.
GITEL
CA NADA, UK , USA / 201 5 / DO CUME NTARY / 4 0 MI N
A portrait of iconic filmmaker Claude Lanzmann and the 12 arduous years
it took to make his epic documentary Shoah, this 2016 Oscar-nominated short
documentary explores the inner workings of a man whose relationship with
time and the world is altered by his dogged commitment to an
ambitious mission.
U SA / 2014/ D O C U MEN TA RY/ 102 MI N
Witness the incredible true story of Gino Bartali, a charismatic Italian Tour
de France cycling champion, who at the height of his career, risked his life to
save Italian Jews and other refugees fleeing the Nazis. Honoured as a Righteous
Among the Nations. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Oren Jacoby.
U K / 2 0 1 4 / F E AT U R E / 1 1 5 M IN
Gitel is a talented violinist living in 1969 Soviet Union. She is also a Holocaust
survivor. Years after the war, haunted with memories of the past she struggles
to live in the present.
G OL D W I L L S E T YOU F R E E
U SA / 2 0 1 4 / D OCU M E N TA RY / 7 0 M IN
A documentary bringing to life the twisted betrayal of Italian Jews who are
exhorted for 50 kilos of gold in exchange for their freedom. Yet when you deal
with the devil, freedom is nothing but a false hope.
Japanese diplomat Sugihara makes the heroic decision to save thousands of
European Jews from the grips of Nazi terror by issuing life saving visas to
refugees, despite opposition from his own government.
P RAC HT I NN
I S RA EL / 2014/ F EAT U R E / 93 M IN
SW E D E N / 2 0 1 5 / D OCU M E N TA RY / 7 6 M IN
The black and white archival footage is easy to dismiss as a relic of the past. To
counter this tendency, Swedish director Magnes Gertten tracks down the people
behind the blurred images in footage of Holocaust survivors arriving in Sweden’s
Malmö Harbour in 1945.
AU ST R IA , GE R M A N Y, ROM A N IA / 2 0 1 3 / F E AT U R E / 8 6 M I N
C LAUDE LA NZMA NN: S PE CTR E S O F THE S HOAH
MY I TAL I AN SE C RE T: THE FORGOTTE N HE ROE S
KAPO I N JE RUSAL E M
I S RA EL / 2014 / F EAT U R E / 93 MI N
A cinematic adaptation of Aharon Appelfeld’s novel Night after Night set
in 1960’s Jerusalem. In the titular Pracht inn, a quirky group of residents,
all Holocaust survivors, can’t shake off their nightmarish wartime memories,
as moving on and building new lives in Israel necessitates.
Bruno and Sarah settle in Jerusalem in 1946 preparing for the War of
Independence. Upon their arrival a rumour spreads that Bruno was a sadistic
Kapo who abused and killed prisoners. Inspired by the life of Eliezer Grinbaum
who was a Kapo in Auschwitz from 1942-1945.
L AST FOL I O
L I NE 41
A boundlessly joyful and charismatic Holocaust survivor returns to Poland in a
search for answers about his family, crossing paths with the son of Łódź’s former
Mayor, a Nazi, pursuing his own family’s dark secret.
SU MMER SOLST ICE
PO L AN D / 2015 / FEAT URE / 100 M IN
MAY 1 2 / YOM H A’AT Z MAU T SPECIA L EV EN T
6 : 3 0 PM / T H E PRIME MIN IST ERS: T H E PION EERS
RE ME MB E R
CA N A DA , G ER MA N Y / 2015 / F EAT U RE / 95 M IN
G ER MA N Y / 2015 / D O C U MEN TA RY / 101 MI N
Surviving the horrors of the Holocaust and emigrating to America, Eli Adler
leaves the past behind. For decades he keeps his awful memories secret,
even from his children. He chooses to end his silence when a band of neo-Nazi
thugs threaten to march in their quiet village of Skokie, Illinois “because that is
where the Jews are”.
This romantic drama delivers a vivid portrait of 1943 provincial Poland
through the lives of four characters: a Polish villager, a German soldier, a Jewish
escapee, and the well-to-do daughter of a Polish farmer.
S LO VA K I A / 2015 / D O C U MEN TA RY / 80 MI N
Celebrated Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc returns to Slovakia, the country
of his birth, in search of “something even before my childhood” which
serendipitously leads him to document the lost Jewish world.
SU RV IV IN G SKOK IE
USA / 2015 / D O CUM EN TARY / 64 M IN
Academy Award nominated director Atom Egoyan creates a thrillingly
fast-paced revenge story that, in a highly original and deeply intimate way,
deals with the aftermath of the darkest chapter of the 20th century. With a
sterling lead performance from Christopher Plummer as the frail but
unstoppable Holocaust survivor Zev, Remember manages to keep audiences
on the edge of their seats while giving them something to think about long after
the film is over.
USA / 2013 / D oc u men ta ry / 115 mi n
8 : 5 0 PM / T H E PRIME MIN IST ERS:
SOLD IERS & PEACEMA K ERS
USA / 2015 / D oc u men ta ry / 111 mi n
Based on the best selling book by Yehuda Avner this series takes the
audience inside the offices of Israel’s Prime Ministers. The Pioneers
focuses on Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir and Soldiers and Peacemakers
examines Avner’s experiences with Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin
and Shimon Peres.