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Event
Bronx World Film Cycle, Winter 2023 (PROGRAMME 06)
1979 (SCR/DIR Vanna Seang. AUSTRALIA, 2018, color, 9:34. Historical drama.) 1979 - The great exodus from Cambodia. A young family flees in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge. As the Vietnamese invasion to oust them advances, food becomes scarce and the danger grows. There is no currency, so they must pay a smuggler in gold to lead them out for only part of the way. They continue on their own through the vast landmine-riddled jungle. Its monsoon and Mother Nature is lashing down. Its dark and a paper map, their only hope out, is soaked and destroyed. Will they survive? (In Khmer, with English subtitles)
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Memory Boxes (SCR Damian Le Bas/DIR Hamze Bytyçi, GERMANY, 2019, color, 09:00. Animation, Drama). A night in his aunt's wagon; his forest haunts; his little sister's coat. Zoni Weisz hid behind beautiful memories, like closet doors. Others hid sorrow -- the abandoned home, his familys deportation to Auschwitz -- waiting to open. Dutch Sinto tried to drown painful pasts with hard work. Zoni Weisz, European flower king and façade of a happy man, doubted his identity. Nightmares haunt him. The war did not forget him, as he says. He had to change something. (NYC premiere)
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They Only Take Away the Criminals (SCR Kristóf Horváth/DIR Hamze Bytyçi, GERMANY, 2019, color, 07:00. Animation, Drama). They only take away the criminals, said Zilli Schmidt's father when Nazis arrested the first Sinti and Roma. Wrong: They deported almost the entire happy family, as Zilli says, to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The 96-year-old Sinti woman tells of the murder of her daughter and most of her family in the gas chambers, of her struggle to survive, her way back to life and her faith after the genocide. (NYC premiere)
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Devils Among Angels (SCR/DIR Jerry Landi, USA, 2018, color, 90 minutes. Documentary.) World class violinist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Marder spent his youth in a concentration camp. After he was finally released, he spent the rest of his life playing violin for the worlds élite and teaching tolerance to school children. Filmmaker Jerry Landi met him at an event at his daughters middle school, and moved by what he heard, decided this would be his new project. Based on the best selling book Devils Among Angels, winner of Best Documentary at Shawna Shea Film Festival and finalist for Best Documentary at The Long Island International Film Expo.
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LocationLa Nacional (Spanish Benevolent Society) (View)
239 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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