Red Trees
During World War II, only 12 Jewish families were left in Prague when the Nazis took over. Marina Willer, an award-winning filmmaker, makes a moving, impressionistic visual essay about her father's family as she traces their journey. César Charlone, who won an Academy Award for City of God, took the pictures for the film. It goes through Eastern Europe and South America, and it's told through the voice of Willer's father, Alfred, who survived bureaucratic nightmares and transportations and went on to become an architect in Brazil after the war, where he lived with his family. Red Trees is a timely look at a family whose lives have been ravaged by war, but who find solace across an ocean. n.