Synopsis
Danny Chanoch (74) is a Holocaust survivor. In his words, he has a BA (Bachelor of Auschwitz) and was fortunate enough to have his own personal physician growing up: Dr. Mengale.
This tall impressive man, who never sheds a tear, and has succeeded in joining every possible delegation to Poland and the death camps, has failed to do one thing: convince his own children, Miri and Sagi, to visit the landscape of his own lost childhood with him.
In six days and in one van, three family members and a film crew travel "that" Europe, traversing the terrain where Danny was forced to "camp" again and again. When they reach the "final destination" at Birkenau, Danny wants to fulfill a life-long fantasy: to spend the night in his old barracks, on his old bunk, with his own children. A bitter argument ensues with the camp officer, and only after waving an arm tattooed with a number in his face, does Danny get his way. Inside the camp, an awkward encounter takes place with a group of German youth making their own pilgrimage to the past.
Around a slice of pizza, which Miri brings her father from the nearby town of Auschwitz, father and children have the inevitable blow-out filled with black humor and great pain.
PIZZA in AUSCHWITZ exposes the experiences of the children-of-survivors, those who are survivors themselves, albeit it of another kind. As Miri puts it in the film: "I guess there's no such a thing as a Holocaust survivor."
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Festival & Awards
- Prize of the Youth Jury of the Filmschule, Doc Leipzig, Germany, November 2008.
- IDFA, the Netherlands, November 2008, Best of Fest.
- Doc Point, Finland, Helsinki, January 2009.
- ZagrebDox, Croatia, Zegreb, February 2009.
- One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic Prague, March 2009.
- Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy, Bergamo, March 2009.
- BAFICI- Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina, Buenos Aires, March 2009.
- OXDOX, UK, Oxford, April 2009.
- Vision Du Reel, Switzerland, Nyon, April 2009.
- Skopje Film Festival, Skopje, Macedonia, April 2009.
- NodoDocFest, Italy, Trieste, May 2009.
- The Golden Dragon prize, Krakow International Film Festival, Poland, Krakow, May 2009.
- IFFTAC- International Festival of Films on Tribal Art & Culture, India, Indore, June 2009.
- Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia, June 2009.
- Sole Luna, Palermo, Italy, July 2009.
- One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia, November 2009.
- Perspektive : International Human Rights Film Festival, Nuremberg, Germany, September- October 2009.
- PRAVO LJUDSKI Human rights Film Festival, Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 2009.
- BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, Boston, U.S.A, November 2009.
- WATCH DOCS- Human rights in films FF, Warsaw, Poland, December 2009.
- Grand Prix "best full- meter documentary" - Berdyansk Film Festival, Berdyansk, Ukraine, August- September 2009.
- International documentary film festival “Flahertiana”, Perm, Russia, October 2009
- This human world, Vienne, Austria, December 2009
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