Cinema Club with Yelena Pogrebizhskaya

Thursday the 29th May, 16:00, saw another installment of the Tolerance Centre’s traditional Cinema Club, organised and presented by the TEFI (2008, 2009), “Laurel” (2008) and “Stalker” (2013) prize-winning documentary director, reporter and rock musician, Yelena Pogrebizhskaya.

This May’s Cinema Club featured a showing and discussion of Mumin Shakirov’s documentary film “Holocaust – Is That Some Kind of Wallpaper Paste?” – a sensation at the 2013 Moscow International Film Festival.  Two girls give their answers to the question “What does the Holocaust mean?” without suspecting that the answer could have any impact on their contemporary life.  The film is about the way in which memory can come to life.  About what can happen to somebody if they refuse to learn.  Without thinking about the past, there can be no future.  How did the world of these girls turn upside down, after their tour of Auschwitz?  How can the life of a person change, if they ask themselves the right questions in time?

The resultant discussion was deep and meaningful, well corresponding to the theme of the session, which constituted the finale of this season’s cinema clubs.  Yelena Pogrebizhskaya will continue a new series of film evenings in September 2014.