Screening the Holocaust Film Series

Wednesday, October 11 – December 12

The eighth annual Screening the Holocaust Film Series, presented by the Miami Jewish Film Festival in collaboration with The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, and the Holocaust Teacher Institute at the University of Miami, is proud to announce its return to an in-person, in-theater experience at O Cinema Miami Beach. The program will feature complimentary screenings alongside engaging discussions moderated by Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Education Director of the Holocaust Institute at the University of Miami.

The series kicks off on Wednesday, October 11, with a special presentation of the audience favorite Farewell Mister Haffman, which received critical acclaim during its premiere at the 2023 Miami Jewish Film Festival. This gripping wartime thriller explores questions of conscience and character as it unfolds the story of a French-Jewish jeweler caught in a Faustian pact that alters the destinies of those trapped in Nazi-occupied Paris.

The series will continue throughout the months of November and December, featuring more renowned films such as Finding Hannah, a heartfelt drama directed by Hollywood legend Sidney J. Furie, and Terezin, a powerful film that unfolds the tragic love story of two musicians imprisoned in the infamous Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Farewell Mister Haffmann

Directed by Fred Cavayé

France-Belgium | 115 minutes | 2022

French with English subtitles

From the producers of the Academy Award-winning film Coda and starring the legendary French actor Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette, The Well-Digger’s Daughter), who gives one of his most superlative screen performances in this gripping new film based on the celebrated, multi-Molière Award-winning play and winner of six international Audience Awards. In this acclaimed, engrossing drama set in Paris during the Nazi occupation, dedicated jeweller Joseph Haffmann (Daniel Auteuil), fearing the worst, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers his employee the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides. But his own attempts to escape are thwarted, and Haffmann is forced to seek his assistant’s protection. Impeccable performances and unpredictable twists mark this superbly crafted morality tale that reveals the complex and contradictory sides of humanity pushed to its darkest limits.
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