Every Face Has a Name

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Thursday, 12 April 2018 | 15:00 | La Maison du Cinéma |

What is it like to be captured during war and mistaken for being a spy? How is it to live six years in hiding dressed like a girl, when you are a young boy? What happens when you have experienced such gruesome things, that you are trying to keep your own memory away? In Every face has a name Elsie, Bernard, Nerit and other survivors from 2nd World War tell their stories as they discover themselves in an archive reel shot on April 28, 1945. The day they were finally being liberated from the German camps. In the archive film they are anonymous faces in large crowds of refugees. But they all have a name. And they all have a story to tell. Stories about escape, survival and starting life again. Just like the many stories we hear about refugees in Europe today.
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MAGNUS GERTTEN has since 1998 directed a large number of documentaries for international TV channels and film festivals. He runs the production company Auto Images in Malmö, Sweden, together with producer Lennart Ström.
Among Magnus Gertten’s highlighted films are The Way Back – True Blue 2 (Blådårar 2, 2002), nominated for Prix Europa, Get busy (Gå loss, 2004), nominated for a Swedish Guldbagge, Rolling Like a Stone (2005) winner of Best Music Documentary at Silverdocs, USA, etc, Long Distance Love (2008), winner of Best Documentary at Hamptons IFF, USA, etc, and Harbour of Hope (Hoppets hamn, 2011), awarded with a Honorary Mention at Krakow International Film Festival. His feature length music documentary Tusen bitar (2014, co-directed by Stefan Berg) has became and one of the most successful Swedish documentaries on cinemas during the last 20 years. In January 2015 his new documentary Every Face has a Name premiered at the Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden, where it was nominated for the Dragon Award, Best Nordic Documentary. The film was awarded the Angelos prize 2015 at the festival.
Magnus Gertten is also a producer and works with international co-productions such as the Prix Europa winner The Punk Syndrome, the Cannes winner Armadillo and the Norwegian Bravehearts.