Director:

Fabrice Genestal

Hidden Children
France | 90 minutes Genre: History/Docudrama Language: French w/English subtitles

Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Tue. Feb. 14th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Tues. Feb. 21st, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Fact is stranger than fiction. But when it is said, fact is more poignant, filled with more outrage, with pain, and more political, legal, and religious twists and turns than fiction. Hidden Children is the true saga of two little French Jewish boys, the Finalys, sheltered by a devout Catholic woman when their parents were sent to their deaths in a concentration camp. The war ended, but another tug of war began over the return to their Jewish heritage. The film highlights the long troubled relationship between Catholic fundamentalism and French republican ideals, Catholicism and Judaism, and the public, the politicians, and the courts. Once there had been L’Affaire Dreyfus, now there was L’Affaire Finaly. The facts by themselves are distressing enough. The performances of the young actors will tug at our hearts.

“Compelling real-life stories.”
- Web site of the Jewish Independent of British Columbia.

Guest Speaker at Camelview 5

Dr. Murray Henner - Professor at Embry-Riddle University and ASU School of Law.

Dr. Henner teaches International Law, Human Rights Law, Global Situation and the Holocaust at Embry-Riddle in Prescott, Arizona. A professor at the ASU School of Law, he has authored several books on International and Human Rights Law. In a continuing effort to promote diversity on the Embry-Riddle Campus, each year Dr. Henner brings many of his students to this film festival to learn more about the Holocaust.

Guest Speaker at Arrowhead 18, Peoria
Rabbi Arthur Abrams
Ordained at Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Abrams went on to receive his Doctorate and MS degrees in law, divinity and counseling. During his life work, he held many important positions including President of the Midwest Association of Reform Rabbis; Member: Central Conference Amican Rabbis Executive Committee; Rabbi Emeritus Temple Beth Shalom, Sun City; and currently serves Beth Ami Temple, Paradise Valley.

Guest Speaker at Crossroads 12, Chandler
Paul Wieser, Holocaust Expert
Paul Wieser is a fifteen-year Board Member of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors’ Association, a Mandel Fellow of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, author of numerous articles, contributing author to two books on the Holocaust, and a former director of the Braun Holocaust Institute-Blick Center for Holocaust Studies for the ADL.

Hidden Children