Charlotte

<img src="https://data.ajff.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/web_embed_Laurel_JuryInCompetition_02.png" style="max-width: 20%; width: 20%; border-width: 0px; margin-left: 10px; float: right;" />Elegant animation and all-star voices bring to life the remarkable story of a German-Jewish painter who left an extraordinary body of work before her untimely death. Born into a life of pain and privilege, Charlotte Salomon (voiced by Keira Knightley) comes of age as the Nazis rise to power. Forced from a famed Berlin art academy amid growing anti-Semitism, she escapes to the South of France. Defying her tragic family lineage and looming dangers, Charlotte experiences an awakening, finding romance and painting her story in a series of expressionist gouaches, masterpieces still revered today. From Old World gloom to the glorious colors of the Mediterranean, the sweeping palette of this moving biopic is a call to live each day to its fullest.