The three documentaries in this year’s festival are as amazing as they are diverse:
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CLOSE TO EVIL For nearly 60 years Slovak-born Tomi Reichental remained silent about his experiences as a boy in the Bergen-Belsen death camp, “not because I didn’t want to, but because I couldn’t.” Tomi was nine-years old in October 1944 when he and 12 other members of his family were taken to a detention camp run by Nazi Alois Brunner. Tomi, his mother Judith, brother Miki, grandmother Rosalia and two other relatives were sent by cattle car to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; the others were sent to Buchenwald. Miraculously, Tomi, his brother and mother survived Belsen and his father survived as a partisan. 35 members of the Reichental family—grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins—however, died in the Holocaust. Today Tomi spreads a message of reconciliation and tolerance even when he is confronted with one of his jailers from the war. …watch trailer Director Gerry Gregg will present the film.
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Clik here to view.A CITY DREAMING, written and narrated by BBC NI presenter Gerry Anderson, is a beautiful portrait of Derry / Londonderry that weaves its way through half a century of history during a time that saw the city rise from poverty and neglect, to hitting the headlines across the world. From the post war industrialization of the 40’s and 50’s to the turbulent 60’s Derry’s people have clung to their spirit and their dignity.
