The film, directed by James Moll, was produced by the Shoah Foundation, which Spielberg founded in 1994 to collect and preserve the testimony of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides.
The film recounts the experiences of five Hungarian Jews who lived through Germany’s occupation of Hungary and the concentration camps, before then following them as they revisit their hometowns and the sites of the camps. It won an Academy Award for best feature documentary and, in 2021, was remastered and rereleased on Netflix. Prior to setting out for Berlin, Spielberg told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “I find the film both heartbreaking and hopeful.
He explained, though, that he planned to limit his own efforts to promote the doc so as not to draw the attention away from the survivors themselves. “The way television works, you can get 60 seconds,” he said. “If I’m there, they spend 45 seconds on me, and the survivors don’t get a chance to speak. I’ve tried hard to take a back seat.”
At this year’s festival, however, Spielberg will be front and center. The fest will screen his latest film, the autobiographical, which is scheduled for release in Germany in March. And it will present him with an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.
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