TIRANA, Jan. 23- The Embassy of the State of Israel, in collaboration with the Marubi Academy of Film and Multimedia, will screen Aida’s Secrets on Saturday, Jan. 27, on the occasion of the Holocaust memorial day.
The movie screening will take place at 7 pm and will be followed by a reception at the academy’s premises.
Aida’s Secret is a 2016 documentary directed by Alon and Shaul Schwarz. The documentary follows a man’s late-in-life search of his brother, from whom he was separated as a child during at a displaced persons camp after WWII.
Relevant on many levels, this documentary is a reminder of both the trauma and lasting consequences the Holocaust had on people’s lives and of how life changing the refugee experience is, even nowadays.
The Toronto Star rated the documentary as “spellbinding. A complex saga of intrigue, secrets, lies and tearful reunions.”
Meanwhile, remembrance ceremonies of the Holocaust are an annual event in Albania, as a country that hid and refused to hand over Jews during WWII.
The day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the largest Nazi death camp, on Jan. 27, 1945.
