With Claude Lanzmann as a festival guest and Ian McPherson lecturer, the 1987 festival highlighted the importance of Lanzmann’s incredible two-part, five and a half-hour Holocaust documentary, Shoah. The film was produced over the course of 10 years, preceded by three and a half years of preparatory research. Not one frame of the film is archival footage; all of it is comprised of interviews with those who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand. As noted in the program notes for the film, “Shoah should be compulsory viewing for all humankind.”
We acknowledge Australia’s First Nations People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land, and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, upon whose Country SFF are based.
We honour the storytelling and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.