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This Unfamiliar Place
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"...Intense, moving, suggestive and understated..."
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How can a person to survive the unspeakable, and then go on to make a new life? For fifty years the filmmaker's father has hidden his memories as a child survivor of the Holocaust, wishing to protect his own children and unwilling to open the door to a lost world. Still his trauma continues to reverberate through the next generation, affecting those around him in unexpected ways. Suddenly confronted by devastation of a different kind, the filmmaker must finally ask her father to tell the story he has carried so long in silence. Scenes of unforgettable power bear witness to the terrible inadequacy of words, and the triumph of the human spirit. Appropriate for:
10 minutes • VHS
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REVIEWS "...Says more about World War II, displacement and pain than many films ten times longer...Very sensitive, personal and moving." "...Stands outside our modern obsession with facts and explanations as it meditates on the mysteries of memory, family and history...A subtle film about the most poignant aspects of our humanity. It should be viewed and discussed in schools where in a maelstrom of information we have too few opportunities to educate the heart."
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