Are you a senior looking for unique art experiences, love film and meeting fellow life-long learners? Come to the AGA on Friday, January 10th at 2pm for our next Cinema for Seniors, a monthly film matinee programmed by our Aging Artfully Advisory Committee.
In January, we are screening From Where They Stood (2022), a documentary film by French filmmaker Christophe Cognet, that reveals the horrors of the Holocaust through photographs taken by prisoners. This film is 115 minutes and will be screened in our Ledcor Theatre located in the lower level of the Gallery. Following the film, we invite participants to partake in a lively discussion with light refreshments in one of our education studios.
This screening is linked to our current exhibition Here to Tell: Faces of Holocaust Survivors, which showcases 65 black-and-white portraits of survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants as well as a personal account of their personal experiences.
About the Film
It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of their experiences. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous people in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs. Film is in French with English Subtitles.
Content Advisory: depictions of nudity, violence and death.
For more information about this program and other programming for seniors or to sign up for our mailing list, contact us at programming@youraga.ca.