Film Series: Footprints/Lábnyomok and Shimon's Return
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Doors open: 6pm
Film Start: 6:30pm
Countless stories of armed conflict and the Holocaust have been told through film. Koffler Arts will present a series of four film screenings – including four documentaries and two films of choreographed dance performances – to complement the exhibition The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmare of Evil into a Shared Dream of Good. Each film dives deeply into the horrifying events at Babyn Yar, the broader context of the Holocaust, post-Holocaust renewal, or the current war of cultural genocide by Russia against Ukraine.
Footprints/Lábnyomok
This short film was shot on location in Budapest, Hungary at the site of Toka and Pauer’s Shoes on the Danube. The film brings us the experience of the Jews of Budapest at the hands of the Arrow Cross militia during the Holocaust when Jews of Budapest were rounded up and shot into the river.
dir. Laurence Siegel; 2014; 6 min.; no dialogue
Shimon's Return
This documentary film – shot in Poland, Ukraine, and Israel – tells the story of Holocaust survivor Shimon Redlich as he returns to Berezhany, his hometown in Ukraine, where he grew up and where he hid during World War II. Shimon's Returns includes excerpts from the film Unzere Kinder (1948), in which Shimon appeared as a child.
dir. Slawomir Grunberg and Katka Reszke; 2014/16; 53 minutes; English (w/French subtitles)
