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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".
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.
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.
While a storm builds, a sad woman clings on to her spoon and lets the deluge slowly flood her spirit.
Adrienne goes back to Poland, where she was born, to see her grandmother and ask her family about communism. In her aunt and uncle’s cosy kitchen she will learn that communist spirits aren’t the only ones to haunt the Polish imagination, and that there are many unexpected and old means to face them.
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".
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.
While a storm builds, a sad woman clings on to her spoon and lets the deluge slowly flood her spirit.