Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s (The Last of the Unjust) nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on interviews and visits to Holocaust sites combined with first-person testimonies from survivors, witnesses, perpetrators and bystanders (often secretly recorded using hidden cameras), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. Intellectual, yet emotionally overwhelming Lanzmann's masterpiece is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present, and it is inarguably one of the greatest documentaries of all time.

Due to the extended running time we will be screening Shoah in two screenings spread over two weekends. The screening of Parts 1 and 2 of Shoah will take place on Sun 22 May 11:00.

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