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THE LIVING WITNESSES

06.11.2024

Feature Film Selection/ Luxembourg, 2021, 85’

Details
  • DirectorKarolina Markiewicz, Pascal Piron
  • Editing: Felix Sorger
  • Cinematography: Amandine Klee
  • Music: André Dziezuk
  • Producer: Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges
  • ProductionPaul Thiltges Distribution
  • 2021 Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival Grand Prize
Recap

Three teenagers, Marie, Christina, and Dean, meet Holocaust survivors Claude and Marian and embark on a journey to understand each other's worlds. Beginning with the deportation of Luxembourgish Jews to the death camps, they quickly realize that history is not just a story of the past but remains deeply relevant to the present.

Director

Karolina Markiewicz, Pascal Piron

Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron’s collaborative work bridges film, visual arts, and theatre, centring on the individual as part of a human community, moving between resignation and hope. Karolina Markiewicz, who studied political science, philosophy, and theatre, works as a film and theatre director. Pascal Piron, with a background in visual arts, is an artist and film director. Both also work as teachers.

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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.