Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

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Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

Jewish Film Festival Opening Night Q&A with Professor and Writer Annette Insdorf

The Opening Night screening on 4/23 is SOLD OUT. There will be a standby line starting one hour before showtime in person at the box office.

“Sometimes I’m afraid the tale might be forgotten. Sometimes I’m afraid it is forgotten already. So I’m telling it to relive it again.” Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the best-known of his 57 books, brought his harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald and his subsequent spiritual journey to millions around the world, chronicling history in the most personal terms. Oren Rudavsky’s artful documentary portrait does the same, using Wiesel family archives, original interviews, and beautiful hand-painted animation. An unforgettable scene where a group of black high school students discuss their deeply engaged response to Wiesel’s writing is just one example of how the movie shows Wiesel’s enduring relevance. 

The Opening Night screening will be followed by a conversation with producer Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and the author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. After the screening on April 23, join us upstairs for a Cocktail Reception in the Jane Peck Gallery to celebrate the beginning of the JBFC’s 2025 Jewish Film Festival

In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the screening on 4/24 will include an introduction from the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center.

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Opening Night Q&A with Columbia Film Professor Annette Insdorf, moderated by Jewish Film Festival Curator David Schwartz
Wednesday, Apr. 23 2025, 7:00
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  • Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular "Reel Pieces" series at the 92nd Street Y, where she has interviewed 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director's work; Philip Kaufman; and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, currently in its fourth printing.
  • David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.
 

This film is part of the Jewish Film Festival 2025 series.



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