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By Gastón SOLNICKI

Documentary - Completed 2011

Intimate portrait of the director's family over the course of a decade following four generations still troubled by a war that’s never spoken of.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 74 mn
- Director(s)
- Gastón SOLNICKI
- Writer(s)
- Andrea KLEINMAN, Gastón SOLNICKI
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-2EC1-0000-K-0000-0000-E
- EIDR
- 10.5240/5622-BC15-088A-EA99-ECC7-Z
- Producer(s)
- Pablo CHERNOV (Filmy Wiktora)
- Synopsis
- Fashioning nearly 200 hours of footage shot over a decade into a family portrait at once epic and intimate, the young Argentinian filmmaker Solnicki (whose previous film was the music documentary Suden) elevates the home movie to an art. Four generations of his Buenos Aires clan are captured on vacations and at family gatherings, as well as in small everyday moments. Digging into the family archives (vintage 8mm footage, a video recording of a bar mitzvah) and incorporating the musings of his grandmother, Pola, a Holocaust survivor, Solnicki crafts a deeply affecting meditation on the meaning of family and the weight of history.