Aujourd’hui, dis moi (Tell Me)

Chantal Akerman / 1980 / France / 45’ / Digital / French spoken, English subtitles  

“In Chantal Akerman’s episode for the series “Grand Mothers” commissioned by French television, she walks through Paris entering various homes inhabited by older women, all Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She politely sits at their kitchen tables, listening attentively to their testimonies. There is warmth and familiarity within these interactions, a sensitivity that is reinforced when Chantal shares that she does not have grandparents, “everybody died during the war”; her mother Natalia, whose voice we hear intermittently throughout the film, also survived the Shoah.” (Jessica Sarah Rinland)

Pioneros (Pioneers)

Narcisa Hirsch / 1976 / Argentina / 45’ / Digital / Spanish spoken, English subtitles

“Following the 19th Century pogroms of Russia, Poland and Romania, Jewish refugees fled to Argentina forming agricultural communities. Filmed on 16mm in colour and black & white in 1976, and rarely shown until now, Pioneros is a remarkable gem and a testimony to this history. An episodic road movie in which Narcisa Hirsch’s distinctive eye travels to various Jewish towns across Argentina interviewing their charismatic dwindling population, and those who have since left its fields for the city of Buenos Aires.” (Jessica Sarah Rinland)

With an introduction by Jessica Sarah Rinland.  

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