Filmen visas den 7 juni 2017 på Teater Lederman, Gästrikegatan 13 i Stockholm k. 19.00
Visningen följs av ett samtal med filmens regissörer och Marianne Ahrne.
Biljetter och info: TEATER.LEDERMAN@TELE2.SE, TEL 08-303094
Varmt Välkomna!
New screening of the film at Teater Lederman, Gästrikegatan 13 in Stockholm.
Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and Marianne Ahrne.
“Watching the Moon at Night” has been invited to be screened in Paris on June 14.
The screening and the following debate with the filmmakers and invited guests are hosted by Conseil Regional d’Ile-de-France, AfVT (Association francaise des Victimes du Terrorisme) and MPCT (Mouvement pour la Paix et contre le Terrorisme).
Salle Delouvrier 35, Boulevard des Invalides 75007 Paris
Entrée Libre – Réservation obligatoire auprès du MPCT
Par mail : mpctasso@aol.com
After screening in London at the Wiener Library, Nick Cohen writes in the March issue of UK magazine “STANDPOINT” about our film:
“A powerful, almost lyrical, documentary, ‘Watching the Moon at Night’, by the Swedish filmmakers Bo Persson and Joanna Helander. They weave together the conspiracy theories of Nazism and the stories of the victims of its ghettos and camps with the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of modern Iran and radical Sunni Islam and the stories of the victims of their terrorism. It is a warning of the danger of appeasing fascism in its old or new forms.
‘Watching the Moon at Night’ has been shown to the European Parliament and at film festivals around the world. It won’t surprise you to learn that it has proved too much for allegedly “liberal” Swedes, who wanted to see Israel demonised. Although the Swedish station Sveriges Television helped fund the documentary, it refused to show it on Swedish television”
“Watching the Moon at Night” has been invited to be screened in the Storch synagogue in Wroclaw, Poland, on November 9.
At the same time Joanna Helander will show an exhibition in the synagogue with photos and objects from her Jewish family, Schiftan, which lived in Oppeln (Opole) and Breslau (Wroclaw) until they were deported and murdered in 1941 and in 1942.
On June 28 “Watching the Moon at Night” was screened in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Watching the Moon at Night — March 28 at The Center for Jewish History in New York
Film and Discussion
This powerful and timely documentary inspired by the historian Walter Laqueur explores the causes and consequences of terrorism and anti-Semitism around the globe. Creative camerawork and the poems of Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska are part of this exquisitely rendered cinematic essay. With filmmakers Bo Persson and Joanna Helander and journalist/educator/author and friend of Daniel Pearl, Asra Nomani. Moderated byJonathan Brent, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Ticket Info: $10 general; $7 members, seniors, students
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presented by Center for Jewish History, American Sephardi Federation, YIVO Institute, and Yeshiva University Museum
We were pleased to screen “Watching the Moon at Night” at the International Festival of Literature, the Conrad festival in Kraków, in October.
Excellent screening, crowded cinema and very good discussion in cinema Kino Pod Baranami at the main square.
“Watching the Moon at Night” is an intellectually informative, visually compelling, emotionally moving and highly disturbing exploration of the phenomena of terrorism in our time. By exploring its roots, listening to its victims and showing its consequences “Watching the Moon at Night” sheds important new light on the scourge of our time. The film remained with me long after the screen went dark, remained with me and touched the darkness and the rage of our age”.
Michael Berenbaum, First Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Shoah Visual History Foundation and currently Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, Los Angeles
“Watching the Moon at Night’ is a film that touches on some of the most important questions of our time. It depicts contemporary terrorism and political attempts to justify it, the emergence of a new modern anti-Semitism and the present situation in the Middle East, the aftermath of the Holocaust and its denial. The film shows the common ground shared by victims the world over and the similarities between the perpetrators. In the film there is no simplifying thesis, no ‘political correctness’. The perspective of the filmmakers is personal and emotional. The film truly makes you think.”
Agnieszka Holland, Film director and Chairwoman of the European Film Academy
“As a film commissioner at The Swedish Film Institute I read about a thousand scripts, both feature films and feature length documentaries. Among the creative documentaries not a single one had the impact, the intelligence and the scope of ”Watching the Moon at Night”. It is a rare film on a subject widely talked about – but never quite in this compelling way. The film digs too deeply to be ”politically correct” and becomes a little scary, especially in a country like Sweden where political correctness seems to be the religion of the day. I truly believe that ”Watching the Moon at Night” deserves a wide international audience.”
Marianne Ahrne, Film director and Writer