First Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 5:45 PM
Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 9:30 PM

Also known as Saul fia

After decades of depictions of the Holocaust, we might assume that no film can have anything new to express on the subject. But the relentless, shockingly original SON OF SAUL alters everything we thought we knew. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is one of the Sonderkommando, Jews responsible for herding new arrivals into the showers for extermination, burning the corpses and disposing of the ashes. We see only what he sees, go only where he goes, with hideous violence always out of focus or just on the edge of the frame. Saul becomes obsessed with giving one young victim, whom he claims to be his son, a religious burial. Is this madness?

Director – László Nemes

–Telluride Film Festival