Full film premiering on Thursday January 27, 2022
Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant, born in Poland, survived Ravensbruck, Malchow, and Auschwitz, where she was the forced translator of the “Angel of Death”, Dr. Mengele. She dedicated her post-war life to publicly speaking of her survival to the young generations, so that it would never be forgotten or repeated. Alice and Serena, her daughter and granddaughter, explore how Maryla’s fight against intolerance can continue today, in a world where survivors are disappearing, and intolerance, racism and antisemitism are on the rise.
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The filmmaker retraces her grandmother’s Auschwitz survival story, and investigates how her life-long fight against intolerance can continue to be taught to the new generations, against the backdrop of current events.
Credits:
Director : Serena Dykman
Screenwriters: Serena Dykman, David Breger, Corentin Soibinet Producers: Serena Dykman, Alice Michalowski, Stephane Dykman Directors of photography: Nick Walker & Julia Elaine Mills
Editor: Corentin Soibinet
Music: Carine Gutlerner
Sound design: Charles de Montebello
Motion graphic design: Alex Noble
Awards
• WINNER Leon Award for Best Documentary Film at the St. Louis International Film Festival (out of 73 films)
• WINNER Best Documentary Film at the Fargo Film Festival
• WINNER Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker at the Harlem International Film Festival
• WINNER Silver Palm Award for Best Documentary at the Mexico International Film Festival
• WINNER Madelyn’s Choice Award at the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
• WINNER Audience Award for Favorite Documentary at the East Lansing Film Festival
• SPECIAL MENTION Audience Feature Film at Amnesty International Au Cinéma pour les Droits Humains
• WINNER Best Biography at the Palm Beach International Film Festival
• WINNER Best Documentary Pitch at the Fusion Film Festival (judges from HBO, VICE, PBS)
• WINNER Mary Lerner Human Spriti Award at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
• WINNER Best of Show at the Docs Without Borders Film Festival
• WINNER Matanel Foundation grant
• WINNER Fondation pour le Judaïsme Belgium grant
• WINNER Alan Lansburg Post-Production award
• WINNER Best Teaser Take Two Film Festival
Festivals, Screenings, Educational Tours & Releases
• St. Louis International Film Festival (Nov. 2016)
• Anchorage International Film Festival (Dec. 2016)
• Irvine International Film Festival (Jan. 2017)
• Amnesty International au Cinéma pour les Droits Humains (March 2017)
• Palm Beach International Film Festival (March 2017)
• Fargo Film Festival (March 2017)
• Columbus International Film + Video Festival in partnership with the Columbus Jewish Film Festival (April 2017)
• Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (NYC- May 2017)
• Harlem International Film Festival (NYC May 2017)
• Lower East Side Film Festival (NYC June 2017)
• Film Society of Summit (NJ Sept. 2017)
• JCC Staten Island (NYC Sept. 2017)
• Selections + Selections (Brooklyn Sept. 2017)
• JCC Manahttan (Sept. 2017)
• Miami Jewish Film Festival Screening the Holocaust Series Opening Film (Oct. 2017)
• Chagrin Falls Documentary Film Festival (OH, Oct. 2017)
• Bushwick Film Festival (Oct. 2017)
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Memorial (Poland, November 2017)
• Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival (with at risk students educational programme, Colorado November 2017)
• East Lansing Film Festival (Nov. 2017)
• European Commission on Combatting Antisemitism and European Jewish Congress (Brussels, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018) with First Vice President
of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, Simon Schama, Serena Dykman, moderated by Gilian Merron, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews.
• JW3 (London, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018)
• George Washington University with Faye Moskowitz (Washington D.C. April 2018)
• Classrooms Without Borders (PA, April 2018) (educational speaking tour in Pittsburgh)
• Nickel Independent Film Festival (Newfoundland Canada, April 2018)
• Theatrical release in NYC, opening on April 13, 2018
• Released on HOT8 Television in Israel (from April 2018)
• JCC Krakow (Krakow, Poland, May 2018)
• Bedzin screening (Bedzin, Poland May 2018)
• Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, May 2018)
• FED (NYC, June 2018)
• Winninpeg Jewish Film Festival spotlight film (Canada, June 2018)
• She4She (NYC, June 2018)
• Released on DVD and iTunes by First Run Features (September 2018)
• Jewish Holocaust Center (Melbourne, Australia, September 2018)
• Yale University (New Haven, October 2018)
• Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (October 2018)
• Park East Synagogue (NYC, November 2018)
• Circle Cinema Special screening, (Tusla, OK, December 2018)
• Sydney Jewish Museum (Sydney, Australia January 2019)
• Denver Jewish Film Festival (Colorado, February 2019)
• CCLJ in partnership with IMAJ and La haine, je dis non !
(Brussels, Belgium November 2019)
