12:00 - Toronto Jewish Film Festival

FILM LISTANGELAINTERNATIONAL PREMIEREITALY 2005, 90 minItalianDirectors: Andrea Frazzi, Antonio FrazziWed. May 9 9:00pm BCAS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYESINTERNATIONAL PREMIEREUSA 2007, 70 minDirector: Hilary HelsteinTue. May 8 5:30pm BCForbidden romance and personal sacrifice areat the core of this poignant and suspensefulstory of one woman’s journey to save the lifeof her beloved. Angela, a single mother, isforced to trade on the black market in orderto feed her son during World War Two. At thedesperate urging of her Jewish neighbour, shereluctantly agrees to harbor his only son, Davide.An unexpected love blossoms betweenthe two, only to be shattered when Davidesets out to join the resistance movement andis captured. Using her powers of coercion,Angela sets off a chain of events that forceher to make decisions that test every fibre ofher being.A beautifully rendered film that lets Holocaustsurvivors tell their stories through theart they created during their imprisonment inconcentration camps. Using a combinationof interviews, photographs, archival footageand stunning artwork, we hear from these“defiant witnesses who refused to go quietlyand fought back with the only weapons theyhad”: paint brushes, charcoal and pencils.Among the artists interviewed are SamuelBak, Simon Wiesenthal, Ela Weissberger, andothers, including Karl Stojka, one of the manyGypsies who the Nazis marked for annihilation.Maya Angelou movingly narrates.Guests: Director Hilary Helstein andSurvivor/Artist, Ela Weissberger, whoappears in the filmGenerously sponsored by:AG AL GREEN THEATRE · BC BLOOR CINEMA · SG SHEPPARD GRANDE · PROGRAMME 13