FRI - SUN, AUG 29 – 31 / 7 pm
WED, SEP 3 / 7 pm
THU, SEP 4 / 9 pm
Directed by Francine Zuckerman
2013, Canada, 82 min
Meet Ania, a young woman celebrating her newly discovered Jewish identity, dedicated to building her life in Warsaw. Meet Henryk, at 97 he is one of two survivors in a small town that was once half Jewish. Meet Leslaw, he had to come out twice, as Jewish and as gay. Meet Larysa, who came out as a Jew in her 40’s and is haunted by the death that surrounds her. Meet Irena, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who lost her entire family and for 50 years chose to live her life as a non-Jew. We Are Here is about how a country, a people, a community and individual families are impacted by the events of World War II. This groundbreaking film excavates the fragile, shaky rebirth of Polish Jewish life in the shadow of the Holocaust.
