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Gaston Solnicki

Director Gaston Solnicki in person at both screenings!

Argentine filmmaker Gaston Solnicki drew on 200 hours of home movies shot over a decade to create a family portrait at once epic and intimate, deeply concerned with the weight of history.

DIRECTOR
Gaston Solnicki
YEAR
2011
COUNTRY
Argentina
RUNTIME
74 minutes
LANGUAGE
Spanish with English subtitles
START DATE
January 21, 2013

This page is for the New York Jewish Film Festival 2013 screening of the film. For the 2014 theatrical run, click here.

Argentine filmmaker Gaston Solnicki has fashioned nearly 200 hours of footage shot over a decade into a family portrait at once epic and intimate—achieving the rare feat of turning the home movie into art. He captures four generations of his Buenos Aires clan on vacations and at family gatherings, digging into the family archives (vintage 8mm footage, a video recording of a Bar Mitzvah) to supplement it and incorporating the musings of his grandmother, Pola, a Holocaust survivor, to craft a deeply affecting meditation on the meaning of family and the weight of history.

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