Monument To Love (2023)
Monument to Love features a journey of Jacky Comforty with his mother, Ika Comforty Ovadia, for over 25 years to research, document, and uncover the narrative of the Jewish people during the Holocaust in Bulgaria. As the journey progressed, Ika’s personal story unfolded. She shares memories and reads passages from her diary which revealed her observations, thoughts and feelings, as a young woman, facing a broken world, plunging into war. Kind acts of friendship she experienced contrast the cruel times and the dangers she and others escaped. Ika’s story is an anti-war manifesto, confronting totalitarianism and supremacy, and erecting a Monument to Love. Completed in 2023, the film is the winner of more than 250 international awards.
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1h 24m — 5 text tracks
Monument to Love
1h 24m — 5 text tracks
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1 videoMonument To Love (2023)
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Monument to Love features a journey of Jacky Comforty with his mother, Ika Comforty Ovadia, for over 25 years to research, document, and uncover the narrative of the Jewish people during the Holocaust in Bulgaria. As the journey progressed, Ika’s personal story unfolded. She shares memories and r...
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1 videoThe Optimists
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The Optimists: The Story of the Survival of the Bulgarian Jews, explores how different ethnic and religious groups stood by each other in Bulgaria even during the Holocaust. Bulgaria’s experience offers valuable insight into how people can build bridges between different communities of different ...
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1 videoFreedoms Under Assault
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Freedoms Under Assault is a powerful full-length documentary that chronicles the systematic destruction of a world-class university and the politically motivated culture war against its faculty over a two-year period. A perfect storm of an autocratic university president collaborating with a supe...