Completed - English, French - Jewish, Drama, Animation - 88 minutes (France Japan)
Animation feature film based on the true story of a Jewish family that goes into hiding during World War II.
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank 12 June 1929 – February 1945) was a diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) in February or March 1945.
Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
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Serena Dykman
Serena is a "third culture kid". She was born in Paris and raised between Paris, London, Brussels and New York. She found her true home in New York, city which inspires most of her films. Serena has always had a passion for the entertainment industry, which lead her to pursue a career in filmmaking, theatre and acting since the age of four. She studied film and television at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Her first short film "Losing Character" premiered at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013. Her second film "The Doorman" also premiered at Cannes in 2014. It won multiple jury and audience choice awards. It is an Official Selection at numerous festivals throughout the world, in addition to being broadcast on TV. Since "The Doorman", Serena wrote and directed two thesis films, "Bed Bugs & Company", and "Welcome", which are starting the festival circuit. Her next project "Nana" is a feature trans-generational documentary about her grandmother surviving Auschwitz. When Serena isn't making movies, she spends her time traveling, trying to capture different people and cultures in photographs and videos, as well as working with elephants.
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