THE STRUMA
"In August 2000, a British diver named Greg Buxton set out on an expedition to find the remains of the sunken Jewish refugee ship on which his grandparents died. The Struma had been towed out of Istanbul harbor into the Black Sea by Turkish authorities and left engineless and stranded when it was sunk by a Soviet torpedo on the morning of February 24, 1942. All but one of the 779 passengers died. That survivor and other people whose lives were touched by the tragedy speak their piece in this excellent doc, but even more compelling is how the Turkish government reacts to Buxton's expedition. Simcha Jacobovici's film proves that the sinking of the Struma is not some distant event, but a crime with contemporary ramifications." -Jason Anderson, Eye, Canada

Playdates:
SUNSET 5 Nov. 9 & 10 {10am}
MONICA Nov. 16 & 17 {11am}
FALLBROOK Nov. 23 & 24 {11am}