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Seventh Art Releasing are happy to announce their newest acquisition JEALOUS OF THE BIRDS!
*Official Selection - DOC NYC
*Winner - Best Original Score Rhode Island IFF
Some 15,000 Holocaust survivors remained in Germany after WWII. How could they stay? JEALOUS OF THE BIRDS was born from this pivotal question. Filmmaker Jordan Bahat begins this quest with a desire to understand the choices made by his own grandparents. In interviews with survivors, their children and other Germans, Bahat explores what it means for victims to live among perpetrators and for children of those perpetrators to deal with the guilt borne from the crimes of their parents. The film, featuring an original score by legendary composer Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight Rises, Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception) and audio footage of Elie Wiesel, becomes a conversation about the effects of these relationships on future generations and the human capacity to confront and rebuild. JEALOUS OF THE BIRDS reminds us that the choices of the past create legacies that play out across families, nations, cultures and generations.
JEALOUS OF THE BIRDS has been selected to screen at DOC NYC, New York’s premier documentary festival. The largest festival of its kind ever held in New York, DOC NYC will showcase 107 events, including screenings of 52 feature-length films and 40 shorts as well as 15 doc-related panel discussions. All events will take place at IFC Center, New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and NYU's Kimmel Center. For more details, go to DOCNYC.net.
THE SWELL SEASON has gained rave reviews after opening in New York last week. Seventh Art Releasing is happy to announce that the film has been extended for another week at Cinema Village, New York!
*New York Times Critic's Pick!*
*New York Magazines Critic's Pick!*
"A POIGNANT commentary on the uneasy commingling of love and fame. Shot in shimmering black and white, the images swaddle the story in a retro glamour as wistful as Ms. Irglova's voice..." -The New York Times
"Disarming and intimate... delectable." -NY Daily News
"This black-and-white documentary has the same disarming genuineness that made "Once" so appealing." -NY Post
"The movie looks beautiful, its sublime b&w cinematography signaling a fading dream. And there are touching moments here that you rarely see in docs about professional musicians or celebrities in general." -Time Out
"EXTRAORDINARY! So intimate and so natural, you feel as if you've stumbled into the room by mistake... coalesces beautifully into a moving portrait of two musicians who fell in love "once." -The Los Angeles Times
In 2008, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová captivated audiences and earned two Academy Awards for their musical collaboration in the film Once, which reached $10 million at the box office and grew their popularity and fan base by tens of thousands in North America and throughout the world. As their fictional romance blurred with reality, they fell in love, recorded an album, and embarked on a world tour. Fueled by two years of exhilaration, performance, and psychological turmoil, The Swell Season is much more than a music documentary. It is a volatile and intimate portrait of a romance that fractures in the face of life on the road and personal tragedy. As Glen and Markéta's relationship unhinges, ultimately music prevails as their enduring connection.
With incredible performances from around the world and an intimate seat on Glen and Markéta's tour, THE SWELL SEASON will resonate with film fans and music fans alike.
IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND, the astonishing, award-winning film, opens in New York and Los Angeles!
New York:
Cinema Village 11/18
Los Angeles:
Laemmle Music Hall 1/27
*Berlinale Panorama -Award Winner!
*Hot Docs Film Festival -Official Selection
*Hamptons Int'l Film Festival -Official Selection
*SFJFF -Official Selection
"MARVELOUS! ... It is as charming and delightful a film as one will ever encounter." -The Huffington Post
"Astonishing" -Upbeat Mag
"A beautiful, often even a cheery film." -Frankfurter Rundschau
"A cemetery film that couldn't be livelier. Sad and funny." -Der Tagesspiegel
IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND: THE WEISSENSEE JEWISH CEMETERY is an enchanting journey into history that celebrates life and the immortality of memories. North of Berlin's noisy city centre, surrounded by a jungle of trees and lush foliage, lies the peaceful and secluded 130-year-old Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, the oldest Jewish cemetery still in use in Europe. Its one hundred acres hold 115,000 graves and a meticulous archive record. The cemetery has never closed, and was one of the few institutions to remain in Jewish hands during the Nazi regime. Award-winning director Britta Wauer's charming portrait creates a serene experience following a delightful array of characters from around the world: mourners, tourists, a young family residing at the cemetery, a third-generation gravedigger and an ornithologist studying rare birds of prey.
Congratulations ART & COPY and The One Club!
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