• Title:
• Nina's Home

• Director:
• Richard Dembo

• French w/ English subtitles

• France, 113 minute

• Venue:
• AFI Silver Theater and
  Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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Nina runs her “House of Hope”—a home for Jewish children displaced by World War II—with the perfect blend of fair-minded discipline and maternal affection for her young charges. Beginning in 1944, Jewish children who had been in hiding throughout and Western Europe gathered in a run-down chateau outside Paris to await the hopeful reunification with their parents. The delicate balance of the home is thrown into chaos when a group of child survivors from Eastern European concentration camps arrives with their own unique traumas, along with a non-Jewish Hungarian guardian with questionable intentions. The film tells the stories of the children as they adjust to one another and to a world slowly emerging from madness. Director Richard Dembo, who won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1984 for Dan gerous Moves, died towards the end of the film’s post-production. He said of Nina’s Home, “…it is quite likely the only way for me to come to terms with my own difficulty with being fully alive today.”

CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of France and the Alliance Française de Washington

Special Guest: Jessica Vaturi Dembo, widow of Director Richard Dembo

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