Part 1: 15:00- 17:30

Part 2: 17:45-19:30

Part 3: 19:45-22:15 

Part 4: 22:30-01.00

Over 9 hours long and 11 years (1974-1985) in the making, the monumental documentary Shoah (Hebrew for ‘Annihilation’) by Claude Lanzmann, recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the death sites filmed at the end of 70’s beginning of the 80’s. In the director’s words “Shoah is not a film about survival but a testimonial of death”.

Hailed as an “epochal masterpiece of memory culture”, and as "an epic film about the greatest evil of modern times", the film received numerous nominations and awards at film festivals around the world including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film and the BAFTA Award for best Documentary.

Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) was one of the great French filmmakers and intellectuals. Born in Paris Jewish parents, he joined the French resistance and went underground to fight the Nazis. Later, Lanzmann studied philosophy in France and Germany and subsequently took a position as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin in 1948/49.

In 1953, Lanzmann, who belonged to Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir’s intellectual circle, became a permanent collaborator on the legendary political and literary journal Les Temps Modernes.

The Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the struggle for human rights have been at the core of his work both as a filmmaker and journalist. Among his best-known films are Israel, Why? (1973), about the necessity of the founding of Israel after the Second World War; Tsahal (1994), a close examination of the Israeli defense force; and Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 PM (2001) about the prisoner uprising in the Sobibor death camp in 1943.

In 2013 Claude Lanzmann received the Honorary Golden Bear for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. It was the first time that a documentary filmmaker received this honor from the Berlinale.