Writer
Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award® nominee César Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a post-war life as an architect in Brazil. As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis, RED TREES is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean.
Director
Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award® nominee César Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a post-war life as an architect in Brazil. As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis, RED TREES is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean.
Director
Cartas da Mãe é uma crônica sobre o Brasil dos últimos 30 anos contada através das cartas que o cartunista Henfil (1944/1988) escreveu para sua mãe, Dona Maria. Estas cartas, publicadas em livros e jornais, são lidas pelo ator e diretor Antônio Abujamra enquanto desfilam imagens do Brasil contemporâneo. Política, cultura, amigos e amor são alguns dos temas que elas evocam, criando um diálogo entre o passado recente do Brasil e nossa situação atual. Artistas, políticos e amigos de Henfil, entre eles o ex-Presidente da República Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, o escritor Luis Fernando Veríssimo, os cartunistas Angeli e Laerte e o jornalista Zuenir Ventura, falam sobre a trajetória do cartunista dos anos da ditadura militar até sua morte. Animações inéditas de seus cartuns complementam o documentário dirigido por Fernando Kinas e Marina Willer.
