Resource guide for grandparents and their families
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DJFF: Nana/Oma
February 8, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$12 – $14
Director: Serena Dykman
2017?USA, Belgium, Poland/100 minutes
French and English with English subtitles
Directed by 25-year-old Serena Dykman, Nana documents jer journey with her mother Alice as they retrace her grandmother’s Auschwitz survival story. Born in Poland, Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant survived Ravensbruck, Malchow and Auschwitz-where she was the forced translator for the “Angel of Death”, Josef Mengele. Maryla dedicated her life after the war to publicly speaking about her survival to younger generations. Alice and Serena, daughter and granddaughter, explore how Maryla’s outspoken activism continues today, in a world where survivors are disappearing and intolerance, racism, and anti-Semitism are on the rise. An intensely personal film, Nana is made from the third generation’s point-of-view, exploring inter-generational relationships under the weight of heritage. Winner of 15 audience and documentary awards from film festivals all over the world.
Denver Premiere
Oma
Director: Daniella Rabbani
2016/USA/10 minutes
English
Ph.D. candidate Dana Bloch has collected hundreds of stories from Holocaust survivors, and yet, the only one that escapes her is that the person in front of her is far more interesting than the story she intended to get. Starring Lynn Cohne and Daniella Rabbani.
Colorado Premiere
Post-screening Q & A
Featuring Daniella Rabbani, director/star/storywriter of Oma