28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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SORELLA’S STORY

SORELLA’S STORY

Peter Hegedus / Australia, Hungary, Sweden / 2021 / 15 min.


synopsis

SORELLA'S STORY explores the story behind a single atrocity photography of a group of women and 11-year-old Sorella, during the Holocaust. Buried by history, the 360° film brings to life a smuggled photograph, taken in December 1941, showing Latvian Jewish women and an 11-year old girl Sorella Epstein, being ordered to undress in freezing temperatures prior to mass execution in Liepaja, Latvia.

more about film

director: Peter Hegedus
producer: Peter Hegedus, Jaclyn McLendon, Bobbi-Lea Dionysius, Herman Van Eyken

Film at festival

festival edition:2022
section:Virtual Reality
language:Latvian, English

Info

director:Peter Hegedus
original title:SORELLA’S STORY
country:Australia, Hungary, Sweden
year:2021
running time:15 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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