The Miami Jewish Film Festival is honored to open the ninth annual Screening the Holocaust film series with the Academy Award-winning Son of Saul at O Cinema South Beach on Monday, October 28 at 7pm. In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. This gripping portrayal of the Holocaust sets the stage for a year of emotionally profound and acclaimed films designed to deepen audiences understanding of this historical event and its impact.