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New York Jewish Film Festival 2013
January 9 - 24, 2013
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.
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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