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| 2015 – 88′ – Documentary, War, Period & History. In the suburb of Drancy lies an unadorned block of low-income housing. With some of the cheapest rents to be had in Paris, it is the residence of some 500 impoverished retirees, recently homeless, and mentally disabled. On the surface everything seems normal enough, children improvise games beneath its stark fa\u00e7ade. But what do the residents know of the site\u2019s dark history? What would they say if they knew their home was haunted \u2013 by 80,000 ghosts? The Silenced Walls explores the building that in 1940 became the central internment camp for Jews during the Nazi occupation of France. Nearly every Jew arrested in France came through its austere lodgings, most on their way to the death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Known to Jews as the \u201cantechamber of death,\u201d it remains the most notorious Holocaust site in all of France, at once damned and sacred. But what does all this mean to the people who live there now? Is it possible to find happiness between the same walls that have been born witness to such misery?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE SILENCED WALLS | 2015 – 88′ – Documentary, War, Period & History. Written by: Sabrina Van Tassel. Directed by: Sabrina Van Tassel. Official Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2015 (International Premiere). In French with English subtitles. A Under\u00a0The Milky Way \/ Distrib Films US\u00a0release. | In the suburb of Drancy lies an unadorned block of low-income housing. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,14,43,102,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-documentary","category-history","category-war","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21487,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions\/21487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Sabrina Van Tassel.
\nDirected by: Sabrina Van Tassel.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2015 (International Premiere)<\/strong>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Under\u00a0The Milky Way \/ Distrib Films US\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"