About this Event
About the Film
Join us for a special screening of TURBULENCE, the new film by Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow Anne Aghion (My Neighbor My Killer, Ice People, Gacaca Trilogy).
In her award-winning film career, Anne Aghion has traveled the world and borne witness to the lives of people who have survived the most extreme circumstances. In her new film, TURBULENCE, described in the French press as "stunningly beautiful", and "a poignant meditation on trauma", she grapples with the shadows cast over her own life — losing her mother when she was a child, and her father’s memories of life during the Holocaust. Through a series of tender, honest and visually stunning cinematic letters to her mother, she recounts her sometimes striking odyssey in search of resolution and peace.
The screening (film run-time 70 minutes) will be followed by a Q&A with Anne Aghion, offering audiences the opportunity to engage directly with the filmmaker.
About the Filmmaker
Multiple award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion is praised as a poetic filmmaker who gets to the emotional core of the people and stories she covers. She gained international renown for THE GACACA SERIES (pr. ga-CHA-cha), four films on post-genocide justice and social reconstruction in Rwanda.
Her 2008 feature ICE PEOPLE was described by Variety as “staggeringly beautiful,” and New York Magazine’s noted critic Bilge Ebiri wrote that “it might be the most immersive documentary I’ve ever seen.”
A Guggenheim fellow, Anne Aghion is an EMMY award recipient, and her film MY NEIGHOR MY KILLER was one of the rare documentaries at the time to premiere as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue, New York, United States
USD 15.00
