{"id":23807,"date":"2025-09-06T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=23807"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:02:55","slug":"all-i-had-was-nothingness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/all-i-had-was-nothingness\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS<\/h1>\n

(Je n’avais que le n\u00e9ant: SHOAH par Claude Lanzmann)<\/h2>\n

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RENOIR THEATER<\/p>\n

Documentary<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcce2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758579213833{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2
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Janus Films
\nMK2 Films
\nInternational Documentary Association<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ css=”” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1757372902141{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere<\/span><\/strong> |\u00a0France |\u00a02025\u00a0|\u00a0Documentary |\u00a094\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In English<\/p>\n

Directed by: <\/strong>Guillaume Ribot
\nWritten by: <\/strong>Guillaume Ribot
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Estelle Fialon (Les Films du Poisson), Dominique Lanzmann (Les Films Aleph)
\n<\/strong>Cinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Guillaume Ribot, Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubtchansky
\nFilm Editing:<\/strong> Guillaume Ribot
\nCast:<\/strong> Claude Lanzmann, Claude Ribot (narrator)
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>mk2
\nUS Distributor:<\/strong> Janus Films
\nUS Release date:<\/strong> TBA<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour masterpiece Shoah<\/em>, Guillaume Ribot<\/strong> uses outtakes from that groundbreaking film, and a voiceover in the director’s own words, to recount his relentless pursuit of truth in a quest to capture the concrete reality of the Holocaust. In doing so, Ribot reveals the enormous emotional, physical and financial toll that 12-year odyssey took on Lanzmann, as he crisscrossed the globe, tracking down survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators alike. Yet, in the master’s own words, “The act of transmitting is all that matters.”<\/p>\n

Director’s biography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photojournalist Guillaume Ribot<\/strong> has been preoccupied with the representation of memory throughout his career, exploring that notion via his photo exhibitions, books and documentary films. His photos have been published internationally (in Time<\/em>, Paris-Match<\/em>, Le Monde<\/em>, The New York Times<\/em>, etc.) and exhibited in museums worldwide. The catalyst for his first documentary, Le Cahier de Susi<\/em> (2013), was the notebook of an 11-year-old Jewish girl his grandmother hid during WWII. Treblinka, je suis le dernier Juif<\/em> (2016) recounts the daily life of a sonderkommando<\/em> at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. The Black Book<\/em> (2019), focuses on Russian writings documenting the destruction of Jews in Nazi-occupied Soviet territories. Moissons sanglantes<\/em> (2023) retraces journalist Gareth Jones’s journey to Ukraine during the great famine of 1932. All I Had Was Nothingness<\/em><\/strong> premiered in this year’s Berlin Film Festival and won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-28-at-10.07.49.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/win-a-cruise-for-two-in-europe\/” target=”_blank” align=”center”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/all-i-had-was-nothingness.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1757004415600{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS (Je n’avais que le n\u00e9ant: SHOAH par Claude Lanzmann)   [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” css=”” accent_color=”#660084″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”CINEMA & DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758579224909{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] RENOIR THEATER Documentary [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcce2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758579213833{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 11:00 am (Screening ends at 12:55 pm) [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_custom_box][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24927,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23807\/revisions\/24927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}