Red Trees (2017)

Awardwinning filmmaker Marina Willer Cartas da Mae creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her fathers family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II Photographed by Academy Award nominee Cesar Charlone City of God the film travels from wartorn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willers father Alfred as narrated by Tim PigottSmith Quantum of Solace who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares transportations and suicides but survived to build a postwar life as an architect in Brazil As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis RED TREES is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean