Synopsis:
A man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories come back to him from the bright beaches of the Indian ocean to the grey of the concentration camps. ... In this moving animated short, Florence Miailhe tells the extraordinary story of Alfred Nakache, the "swimmer from Auschwitz".
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A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
- Drama
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Osi Wald and Noa Berman-Herzberg’s “Holy Holocaust” documents a dark family secret coming between two longtime friends: Noa, an Israeli, and Jennifer, a German who discovers that she is the granddaughter of a notorious Nazi commander, Amon Göth.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragicomedy
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The Armageddon starts with falafel patties. The last Jew who is left in the diaspora finally arrives in Israel and enjoys everything the country has to offer. By doing so he is unaware that his arrival to the Holy Land starts the Apocalypse as described in the Evangelical interpretation of the New Testament.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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No one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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The film relates Bastien’s multiple and unsuccessful attempts to initiate a dialogue with his grandfather using an excellent combination of art styles to lay out a story of war trauma, family conflict, creative process and ultimately filial love…
- Drama
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Looking at an X-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man’s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born…
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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How does one grow up between an absent Iraqi father and a pervasive Jewish mother? Tossed around by the great upheavals of the modern times, Tim tries as hard as he can to find his place in the world.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A room retains one’s traces of life. I want to question on humans’ being and loss as time flows, by reflecting on the traces left in a room and its elements ranging from space, walls, door, windows, stuffs and so on.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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The body of a man is forever marked by the horrors of war.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don’t listen to his answers, they give advice but don’t follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it’s ok, it is the Sunday lunch
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Man on the chair is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.
- Drama
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As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy