{"id":8716457,"date":"2026-03-26T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=8716457"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:22:31","slug":"french-films-on-screen-the-national-center-for-jewish-film","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/french-films-on-screen-the-national-center-for-jewish-film\/","title":{"rendered":"French films on screen @The National Center for Jewish Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Center for Jewish Film will hold their Annual Film Festival from April 12 until April 23, 2026, in Boston. On this occasion, three french films will be projected. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at 7:00PM &#8211; <em><strong>ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS<\/strong><\/em> <br>Guillaume Ribot | 2025 | 94&#8242; | English and French, German, Hebrew &amp; Polish with English subtitles&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty years after Claude Lanzmann\u2019s monumental 9-hour film&nbsp;<em>Shoah<\/em>&nbsp;reshaped how the world remembers the Holocaust, filmmaker Guillaume Ribot returned to Lanzmann\u2019s original materials and created a profound and riveting documentary all his own.&nbsp;A surprisingly propulsive and suspenseful film,&nbsp;<em>All I Had Was Nothingness<\/em>&nbsp;draws on 220 hours of previously unseen outtake film footage Lanzmann shot in the 1970s recently digitized by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ribot revisits Lanzmann\u2019s 12-year odyssey, providing a fuller picture of the personal, ethical, logistical, and financial strain behind the monumental work.  More than a \u201cmaking-of\u201d documentary,&nbsp;<em>All I Had Was Nothingness<\/em>&nbsp;stands as a moving meditation on memory, testimony, and the power of cinema to confront history.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New England premiere &#8211; Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Screening, register <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfest2026.jewishfilm.org\/films\/all-i-had-was-nothingness\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venue: Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 7:00PM &#8211; <strong><em>THE SAFE HOUSE <\/em><\/strong><br>Lionel Baier | 2025 | 90&#8242; | French with English subtitles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 1968, while his parents take part in the student and worker protests on the streets of Paris, 9-year-old Christophe (the delightful Ethan Chimienti) stays with his eccentric grandparents, uncles and great-great grandmother in the Boltanski family\u2019s charming and mysterious Parisian apartment. A bulwark against the world, the apartment\u2013and the family\u2013are a universe unto themselves, propelled by creativity and politics, joy and love, but also the scars of wars passed down through the generations and the enduring weight of antisemitism and the Holocaust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New England Premiere, register <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfest2026.jewishfilm.org\/films\/the-safe-house\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venue: Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sunday, April 19, 2026, at 7:00PM &#8211; <em><strong>ONCE UPON MY MOTHER<\/strong><\/em> <br>Ken Scott | 2025 | 102&#8242; | French with English subtitles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this exuberant, colorful drama based on an incredible-but-true story, the matriarch of a bustling Moroccan-Jewish family living in Paris will do anything to give her youngest son the best possible life despite his physical setbacks. French Algerian actress Le\u00efla Bekhti&nbsp;<em>(Paris, je t\u2019aime)<\/em>&nbsp;delivers a radiant, powerhouse turn as Esther Perez, a spirited immigrant whose world is upended when she\u2019s told her newborn son has a severe clubfoot and will never walk. Refusing to accept such a fate, she launches a relentless\u2014and often riotously funny\u2014campaign: storming clinics, sparring with specialists, and invoking medical miracles and divine intervention to give her child the future he deserves. A fiery adaptation of&nbsp;<em>Ma m\u00e8re, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan<\/em>, the best-selling autobiographical novel by French writer and radio personality Roland Perez set in the 1960s-1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upcoming projection, register <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfest2026.jewishfilm.org\/films\/once-upon-my-mother\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venue: Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8716492,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[214],"app_event_type":[504],"class_list":["post-8716457","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-bos","app_event_type-film-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French films on screen @The National Center for Jewish Film - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/french-films-on-screen-the-national-center-for-jewish-film\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French films on screen @The National Center for Jewish Film - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Center for Jewish Film will hold their Annual Film Festival from April 12 until April 23, 2026, in Boston. 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