Twenty years after her mother’s death, Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua unearths a family secret. She knew her mom as the infamous redheaded Israeli freedom fighter of family lore—but not as a survivor of a Czech women’s labor camp during the Holocaust. As Marisa delves deeper, she discovers a journal written by the camp’s teenage prisoners, some entries penned in her mother’s own hand. Following its clues across the globe, Marisa comes to understand the unbearable shame that fueled her mother’s defiance—and kept her silent. Riveting written and filmed testimonies, striking animation, and compelling vérité footage track a daughter’s search for an unknown mother, revealing a harrowing story of sisterhood and resistance. –Marcia Jarmel
2022 Filmmaker in Residence
World Premiere