FINDING BABEL

USA, Ukraine, Russia, France, 2016, 89 min.

Director David Novack

75 years after iconic Soviet writer Isaac Babel’s wrongful execution, his grandson comes closer to the elusive truths of his heritage. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts lingering traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfathe’s subversive writing and in the conflicts and climate of today’s Ukraine and Russia. Babel’s life story and his fiction are woven into Andrei’s search with ethereal animation that puts viewers, like Babel’s readers, somewhere between fantasy and reality.

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: Moscow Jewish Film Festival (2016)

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Seattle International Film Festival (2016)

Haifa International Film Festival (2016)

Odessa International Film Festival, Ukraine (2016)

LUMIERE: 24.04, 19:00
ODEON: 22.04, 19:15

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