LIFFY 2023| Facing the Silence/Frente al silencio. Emilio Ruíz Barrachina.

Facing the Silence/Frente al silencio. Emilio Ruíz Barrachina. Spain. 2022. (94 min). Q&A and dance demonstration with Flamenco dancer Yarden Amir. Fuensanta “La Moneta” is a contemporary flamenco dancer and choreographer. In her dance studio she prepares a new show with her students, however, everything changes when one of her students, Israeli and Jewish, gives her the book “La Cabellera de la Shoá” that Félix Grande wrote during his visit to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and that marked his work to the point of being his last book. Fuensanta devours every poem by Félix Grande and can’t stop thinking about those tons of accumulated hair, about the captive gypsies and the Jewish women marching towards certain death. It is then that she turns her show around and plans to visit Auschwitz to imbue herself with silence and look at it head-on. After convincing her manager, Raúl, she starts a retrospective in her show to mix dance, literature, music and the silent interpretation of millions of silent lives. Choosing three students for the cast will not be a comfortable task and each one will discover that “La Cabellera de Shoá” is a greater link in their daily lives than they imagined. This is how the whole story lands and becomes social.

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