The Forgiveness of Judith Malina The Forgiveness of Judith Malina considers the ethics of forgiveness in the context of the Holocaust.The film features never-before-seen footage of late theater director Judith Malina with an original score by James Sclavunos of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. As director of The Living Theatre, Judith Malina (1926–2015) was a giant of the American...
Axel Stocks: A Blood Artist A Blood Artist is a short documentary about Axel Stocks (1946-2016), who was born to a Jewish woman in a displaced persons camp immediately after the Second World War. Her husband, a Jew, and her whole family, had already been exterminated. She was forced to have sex with the Nazis to survive. After the war,...
A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL: Three Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL is an eye-opening portrait of three Bulgarian Jews – Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker on the Lower East side of Manhattan in New York – as they struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II into the more common narrative...
Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story (46 min) “Herinneren: Het verhaal van Maurits Kiek…Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story” presents one man’s courage to return to Nazi-occupied Europe and serve as a covert MI-9 agent. His unwavering determination to stand up, in the face of overwhelming odds, and fight the perpetrators of evil was acknowledged in Den Haag, The Hague, in 2015. He is...
UnReined TThis documentary is the story of an Israeli equestrian champion from San Diego, who crossed taboo boundaries between Jews, Christians and Muslims, to build the first Palestinian Equestrian Team. Her story rides parallel with the growth of the State of Israel, its wars, its rapid economic growth, changing borders and external and internal conflicts. On...
Susette’s Story Like so many refugee families from Nazi Germany, Rod Martel’s experience was typical, if that is the word you can use for the horror visited upon a generation of German Jews. Most of his relatives were murdered, but his parents escaped to start a normal life in the United States. His fraternal grandparents fled to...
Wolbrom: My Father’s Hometown in Poland The director’s account of her discovery of the hometown in Poland her father fled to escape Nazi persecution and annexation during the Holocaust. In 2005, the director and her husband took an emotionally wrenching journey back to her father’s hometown of Wolbrom to capture eyewitness accounts of the removal and extermination of the town’s Jewish...
Claire Klein Osipov – Life Sung Yiddishly In her own words, Claire Klein Osipov, one of Canada’s foremost singers of Yiddish song, presents her six-decade journey as a performer from her early days in Toronto to her later days in Vancouver in community, theatrical and televisual venues.
A Blood Artist A Blood Artist is a short documentary about Axel Stocks (1946-2016), who was born to a Jewish woman in a displaced persons camp immediately after the Second World War. Her husband, a Jew, and her whole family,had already been exterminated. In order to survive, she was forced to have sex with the Nazis. After the...