And Every Single One Was Someone is a 1,000 page-long book that has only one word in it; reproduced more than 6,000,000 times throughout its thin, harrowing pages is the word “Jew.” As an elegy to ...

Saul (Géza Röhrig) is almost always seen in a near close-up in Son of Saul, putting you right there next to him. The camera stays tight on a gaunt, weathered face as we hear a train and the dull roar ...

Oscar-winning “Son of Saul” and “Sunset” director László Nemes takes a personal story to the Venice competition. In “Orphan,” he’s recalling the story of his father who, as a 12-year-old boy, had to ...

Son of Saul by László Nemes Having caused a real sensation at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, where it snagged the Grand Prix and the Fipresci Prize in the competition, as well as the François Chalais ...

The rippling fallout of war on families has long been fertile ground for cinema — trauma is calcified while secrets from the past become myths, either perpetuated long enough to solidify into fact or ...

A prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp serving in the Sonderkommando (prisoners forced to do grisly tasks for the Nazis) finds a young boy who initially survives the gas chamber, and makes it ...