In partnership with the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, LAMOTH is pleased to present a preview screening of What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy, on Monday, November 2, at 7:00 pm, at the Laemmle Royal Theater.  Written by British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands and directed by David Evans (Downton Abbey), this film addresses the provocative and unsettling question: What's it like to be the child of a high-ranking Nazi officer? The documentary focuses on Sands' encounter with two men whose fathers were high-ranking Nazi officers during the Second World War: Niklas Frank, whose father was executed after being found guilty of war crimes by the Nuremberg tribunal, and Horst von Wächter, whose father operated in occupied Poland. The men have strikingly opposite views on their relationship with their fathers. From these extraordinary encounters, a gripping conversation emerges, resulting in the men journeying to Poland where members of Sands' family were executed during the war.  A trailer for the film is available  here .

Q&A moderated by LAMOTH Executive Director Samara Hutman will follow the screening. We expect that the screening will sell out, so we suggest purchasing tickets in advance here. 

Please join the Righteous Conversations Project at LAMOTH on Tuesday, November 3, at 7:00 pm, for the West Coast premiere of  The Man Who Mends Women, the moving story of Dr. Denis Mukwege and his work at the landmark Panzi Hospital in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who not only repairs the bodies of tens of thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but works to restore their lives and address the root causes of violence in DRC.  A trailer for the film (with English subtitles) is available  here .

 

Doors open at 6:30 pm; the screening will begin promptly at 7:00. Q&A with Philippe Cousteau Jr., Founder and President of Earth Echo International and the GlobalECHO Foundation, a grantmaker to Panzi Hospital and Foundations, will follow.

Admission is free but seating is limited and reservations are required. Click here for more information and here to reserve a seat. 

Join us for a talk by Holocaust Survivor Dr. Avraham Perlmutter. Dr. Perlmutter was born in Vienna in 1927. After Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his sister on a Kindertransport to the Netherlands. The Germans followed, and he experienced harrowing captures, daring escapes, tortuous hiding and heartbreaking losses, but also the kindness of strangers. After the war, Dr. Perlmutter fought in Israel's War for Independence, and later moved to the United States, where he earned a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering. Dr. Perlmutter is the author of a memoir, Determined, which is available for purchase at the LAMOTH book store.