Voices of the Attic
When Vera Bondy came to Montréal in 1953, she had already decided to leave her past behind, to become a "normal" person again. She enjoys living in this lively city and appreciates it for its cultural diversity and the omnipresence of the arts. Art, she says, is good company.
But over the years she has realized that time doesn't heal, and the past becomes more present every day. Until it finally appears again in the very concrete form of "Hlas Pudy": a magazine written by children in the Terezín ghetto in 1944 – the editor being Vera's then 12-year-old sister, Mariana Kornová.
"Voices of the Attic" is a portrait of a fascinating woman, an essay on remembering, and a tribute to a precious and haunting work of art.
When Vera Bondy came to Montréal in 1953, she had already decided to leave her past behind. But finally the past appears again in the very concrete form of "Hlas Pudy": a magazine written by children in the Terezín ghetto – the editor being Vera's then 12-year-old sister, Mariana Kornová. Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund/Köln//1.4.2011
Festival für Studentenfilm Pisek//1.10.2011
Award in the category Menschenrechts-Filmpreis
Montréal World Film Festival//2010
Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München//2011
arsenal institut für film und videokunst e.V.//29.1.2015
Submission in the category Filmreihe "Asynchron. Dokumentar- und Experimentalfilme zum Holocaust."
Internationales Videofestival Bochum//2011
Submission in the category Internationaler Wettbewerb
Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele//2011
Filmschoolfest Munich//2011
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche//2012
Award in the category FFF-Förderpreis
Ilmenauer Medienpreis//2014