Some tickets still remain for the Opening Night Gala of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival on February 24, 2009. Cost is $100 per person, which includes a reception and film ticket.
Plus tard, tu comprendras (One Day You’ll Understand) is this year’s opening night film. It screens at 8 PM at the Isabel Bader Theatre and will be preceded by a 6 PM reception at McKinsey & Co., 110 Charles Street West.
For tickets, please call (416) 322-8448 or e-mail marijke.anbeek@hrw.org by February 17, 2009.
Plus tard, tu comprendras (One Day You’ll Understand) stars Jeanne Moreau in the role of Madame Gornick, an aged woman who prowls around her apartment listening to her television set, which is tuned to the Klaus Barbie trial of 1987. Meanwhile, her son Victor is trying to assemble the bits and pieces of their family legacy through photographs, letters and memorabilia.
The film was adapted by Amos Gitai from Jérôme Clément’s autobiographical novel of the same name. Guest speaker for the evening is Erna Paris author Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair and seven other books.
