Film Screening After: Poetry Destroys Silence
Saturday, January 25, 2025 • 25 Tevet 5785
7:30 PM - 9:30 PMLower Level Beit MidrashIn honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Monday, January 27th, please join us on Motzaei Shabbat, January 25th at 7:30pm for a screening of the film "After: Poetry Destroys Silence" (85 min), a film produced by Bayit member Janet R. Kirchheimer. The screening will be followed by Q&A with the producer, Janet Krichheimer and actor Géza Röhrig. Moderated by Rabbi Steven Exler.
Cost: $15/person. Register below by January 24th.
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The first of its kind, where poetry and cinema combine and transcend, AFTER is an exploration of poetry written about the Shoah. Contemporary poets respond to the Holocaust and talk about the importance and necessity for poetry in a world that still grapples with genocide.Rather than seeing the devastation, AFTER shows how poets respond to catastrophe and write in its aftermath. The film is ultimately about human resiliency, the power and courage to forge new lives, and the value of poetry in looking to the past to help create a better future.
As survivors leave us each day, their voices live inside the poems we include in AFTER. One poet speaks the line, her father, a survivor, told her, “Home is anywhere they let you in.” The film serves as both a model and a warning for an increasingly divided and violent planet.
Co-sponsored by: The Kehilah of Riverdale and the Riverdale Y.
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