The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother,…
My Father (Récits de Sam)
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Sam Hoffenberg was one of the rare survivors of the camp of Poniatowa, where he was deported when the Warsaw ghetto was liquidated in 1943. Using footage filmed in 1989, the film is a fragmented meditation on survival, in an intimate dialogue between father and daughter.
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