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The Boulder Jewish Film Festival is thrilled to pay tribute to documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, as well as to honor his lifelong dedication to Holocaust awareness, in a special six-program tribute. Described by Tablet Magazine as “a filmmaker of rare moral perception,” Sauvage has consistently probed questions of moral choice, focusing on the magnitude of humanity’s failure during the Holocaust by underscoring what it was possible to do.
This exclusive retrospective culminates with Sauvage’s seminal “
Weapons of the Spirit,” newly remastered in wide-screen for its 30th anniversary. In addition to the screening of this widely acclaimed Holocaust history/memoir, this year’s all-virtual festival will include four other documentaries produced and directed by the pioneering Jewish French-American filmmaker, who has also lectured widely