Film Screening

Six screenings:

Friday, March 25, 2016, 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Saturday, March 26, 4:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Sunday, March 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Q&A led by Andrée Lotey, daughter of a Sousa Mendes visa recipient
Time: 7 p.m.
Price:
$10 CAN members
$15 CAN non-members.
For more information: rosie@templemontreal.ca

In June 2013, filmmaker Semyon Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embarked on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps of 73 years earlier. They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts. For trailer click here.
Tickets $5 available at the door. Film screening at 7. Film length is 47′. Guided tours of the exhibition given before and after the screening.

Q & A following the screening led by Karen Denker, daughter and granddaughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients.

Tickets:  $10

Organized by the Association of Portuguese Speakers in Switzerland. Event in French and Portuguese. Special guest Gerald Mendes.

Camp Gibraltar, on the island of Jamaica, was a safe haven during World War II for Jews escaping Nazi-occupied Europe.  Some of the refugees who found respite there were Sousa Mendes visa recipients.  Accordingly, Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be honored during a reunion of the families who once called Camp Gibraltar home.

Presented by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa
Followed by Q&A with Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Tickets by donation.

For more information contact: emoscoe@jewishottawa.com