aw • rah • nyoosh

A documentary filmmaker attempts to imagine, along with his father, his grandmother’s experience at a labor camp during the holocaust. As they get drawn into a world of the grandmother’s romance, they begin to lose control of their imaginations. “The son installs the camera, the father stands on the sofa. They are preparing to begin an intergenerational dialogue based on the newspaper that their mother and grandmother, Sari, held in the 40s, during his deportation. aw • rah • nyoosh [aranyos] , from Ben Neufeld, takes time to set up; the viewer takes time to understand the contract that the director offers: no rigorous documentary or bouncy reconstruction, the film follows a tangential path.” – Antoine Duplan from LE TEMPS

Film Maker
Neufeld, Ben
Year
2017
Country
USA
Length
71
Language
English
Category
America, comedy, Families, Feminism, Genocide, history, Identity, Jewish, Labour, Language, Memory, Oral Histories, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Racism, Religion, Resistance, Time + Space, Travel, War + Conflict, Work about Women
Genre
docufiction, documentary, Drama, experimental, feature, narrative

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