Samy Szlingerbaum

Brussels-Transit

Samy Szlingerbaum

Hélène Lapiower, Boris Lehman

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.

Toute une nuit

Chantal Akerman

Aurore Clément, Natalia Akerman

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.

Le 15/8

Chantal Akerman, Samy Szlingerbaum

Chris Myllykoski

On a wet August 15th, with time on hold, Chris, a young Finnish woman recently arrived in Paris and taken in by one of Chantal Akerman's friends, confides herself. On the one hand, her long, non-stop monologue of trivialities pours a non-expressed angst. On the other hand, her portrait in fixed shots captures her gestures. - Doclisboa

Les marches du palais

Samy Szlingerbaum

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Cinématon XII

Gérard Courant

Jackie Raynal, Sylvia Andresen

Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.