JUNE ZERO
With director Jake Paltrow in-person
The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of the Jews during the Holocaust, is revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow (The Good Night). This Hebrew-language drama—based on true accounts—tells its story from the intertwined perspectives of three largely unrelated figures: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator for the prosecution and a Holocaust survivor; and a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant.
Largely shot on 16mm film, Paltrow’s vividly textured work uses these disparate points of view to paint an image of the diasporic Jewish people and, in its unorthodox narrative approach, reminds us that the same histories are experienced differently by people all over the world, and we are connected through shared traumatic pasts. (Israel/USA, 2022, 105 mins, Hebrew with English Subtitles | Dir. Jake Paltrow)
Jake Paltrow is a writer, director, & actor. His feature
debut The Good Night was released in 2007. He co-directed
in 2015 the documentary De Palma with Noah Baumbach. He
also directed several successful television shows including Boardwalk
Empire and Halt and Catch Fire. He was nominated for an
Emmy Award for The First Ones, a film commissioned by the
“New York Times Magazine” in which seven actors talked about the movies that
made early impressions on them. June Zero is this third fiction
feature film.
