Meet director Bertrand Tavernier in person, this evening, Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m. only! "SUPERB! Brims with humanity, seri ousness good humor and commitment." Kevin Thomas LOS ANGELES TIMES < 41141, NAZI OCCUPIED PARIS, 1942: LOVE AND ART ARE ACTS OF RESISTANCE. Scenes from Avi Mogmbis "August: A Moment Before the Eruption" A film by BERTRAND TAVERNIER STUDIO CANAL Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m. only Saturday, March 8 at 7 p.m. only Sunday, March 9 at 3 & 7 Mograbi, which received the Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary at the 2001 Ann Arbor Film Festival. "August questions not so much whose political side we're on, but takes it down to the street level of individual people having to live their lives on a daily basis with this turbulence around them," says Hamilton. "Some of the incidents Mograbi cap- tures are just mind-boggling. We all know about this great conflict, but we don't live it every day. We don't have to walk to the grocery store in that environment. Shot in August of 2000 just before the current intifada reached critical mass, August is half documentary and half fiction. Mograbi appears as himself, a real-life filmmaker interviewing people on the street who fear his camera. - But he also takes on roles as Mograbi the fictional director, his own wife (with a towel wrapped around his head) and a producer working with the real Mograbi on a.film about the 1994 Hebron massacre. Mograbi's intent was to document the month of August as a metaphor for the violent climate in Israel, but as he shot the film, he discovered that the violence he imagined was harder to find than he had originally thought. He did, however, find people con- frontational toward him and his cam- era, and in this way his original idea was carried out in a manner different from what he had first planned but successful all the same. Pula E einifirePiCtinSia&COM DETROIT FILM THEATRE 313,833.3237 the DETROIT. INSTITUTE of ARTS www.dia.orgicift HE ORLD IS I NITING IN ITS ELEBRATION OF • " S XTRAORDINARY STORY OF HOPE, COURAGE AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. A 1 7 ACADEMY AWARD' NOMINATIONS BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR' S RUIN BEST ACTOR • ADRIEN BRODY BEST DIRECTOR • ROMAN POLANSKI BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY • RONALD HARWOOD IMMESH ACADEMY HIM AWARD WINNER Holocaust Themes BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR Hamilton says the festival makes films that deal with topical issues in unique ways a priority "We're definitely about what's hap- pening in the present moment. The fes- tival has always had a history of being political, of showing political work." Schogt, while not necessarily work- ing with current events, does deal with political issues. Her personal trilogy of 16mm Holocaust shorts — Zyklon Portrait, The Walnut Tree and Silent Song— deal with the relationship between subjective memory and objec- tive history as well as her own family's history, and will be screened in a spe- cial juror's presentation. A resident of Canada, Schogt has won numerous awards at home and abroad. All three of her films have received awards at the Ann Arbor festival. "Elida's films are really beautiful and gripping and very much a different way of looking at the Holocaust," says SHORT CUTS on page 79 BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR SCIEIE -f Y C3= r-:LF4 < RI ) , C S s'INN£ R .SAN fRANCISr0 HEM