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Discovering themselves anew in old archival footage, Holocaust survivors are transported in time as they share profoundly moving recollections of being ferried to freedom in <strong>EVERY FACE HAS A NAME</strong>.
The extraordinary moment captured on 35mm film by Swedish news photographers, hundreds of malnourished German concentration camp refugees arrived in Malmö, Sweden in April 1945, liberated but facing an uncertain future. Filmmaker Magnus Gertten tracked down many of the anonymous faces in the digitally restored footage. The group includes not only Jewish survivors, but Norwegian and French prisoners of war, Polish mothers with babies, British spies, and an Italian-American survivor of Auschwitz, who had been charged with espionage. Watching their liberation for the first time brings overwhelming moments of euphoria, as nameless faces suddenly gain identity and history.
Offering a thought-provoking commentary on the global refugee crisis, <strong>EVERY FACE HAS A NAME</strong> intercuts present-day images of war evacuees from Africa and the Middle East, a reminder of humanity's ongoing responsibility towards sheltering displaced persons regardless of homeland. Winner of the Göteborg International Film Festival Church of Sweden Film Award, and the Filmfest Hamburg Political Film Award.
The extraordinary moment captured on 35mm film by Swedish news photographers, hundreds of malnourished German concentration camp refugees arrived in Malmö, Sweden in April 1945, liberated but facing an uncertain future. Filmmaker Magnus Gertten tracked down many of the anonymous faces in the digitally restored footage. The group includes not only Jewish survivors, but Norwegian and French prisoners of war, Polish mothers with babies, British spies, and an Italian-American survivor of Auschwitz, who had been charged with espionage. Watching their liberation for the first time brings overwhelming moments of euphoria, as nameless faces suddenly gain identity and history.
Offering a thought-provoking commentary on the global refugee crisis, <strong>EVERY FACE HAS A NAME</strong> intercuts present-day images of war evacuees from Africa and the Middle East, a reminder of humanity's ongoing responsibility towards sheltering displaced persons regardless of homeland. Winner of the Göteborg International Film Festival Church of Sweden Film Award, and the Filmfest Hamburg Political Film Award.
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