Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann?s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals the director?s relentless pursuit to tell the untold, using only Lanzmann?s words and unseen footage from the masterpiece.
The film focuses on a young prosecutor who sets out to challenge a system during Stalin?s Great Terror in 1937 after discovering a letter from a prisoner that is a desperate plea for help.
Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.
Currently in production, A GREAT AWAKENING tells the true story of an unlikely friendship that resulted in one of the most defining, yet untold, moments of American History. Known as our spiritual founding father, George Whitefield?s voice ignited a revolution we now call The Great Awakening.
In Paris, at an exhibition on the French writer, photographer and filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), Jean-Henri Cabrera thinks he sees himself in a specific shot of the short film La Jet?e, directed by Marker in 1962.
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil?s repressive military regime.