My Father's Secrets

My Father’s Secrets | Saturday, March 13, 7:30pm

| 2022 | 74 min. | Belgium/France | English/French

Discussion Leader: Arnie Rotenberg, Director of Congregational Jewish Living, CGOH

PG-13 Film. Teens are welcome!

A Belgian boy is haunted by his father’s refusal to reveal his past as a Holocaust survivor, in this sensitive post-war coming-of-age animated tale of generational trauma and healing. Michel is a typical 12-year-old, an occasional misfit with a budding interest in girls, often irritated by his tag-along younger brother. He has little grasp of his Jewish heritage or his reclusive, at times gruff father who retreats inward, toiling away over a mysterious diary. As the silence deepens the gulf between father and son, familial friction culminates in a long-overdue reckoning. Elliott Gould voices the titular father, with lustrous 2D animation capturing the spirit of illustrator Michel Kichka’s autobiographical graphic novel on which the film is based. Directed by Vera Belmont.

Single price tickets are $10 for JCC members and $15 for guests at the door and $8 for members and $13 for non-members with prepayment. Refreshments are being provided by 518 Kosher and the SJCC.

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