How Friendship, an Alias and Natalie Portman Helped Create 2026’s Oscar-Nominated Animation | Video

TheWrap Screening Series: "If we want the best to happen, we have to imagine it," said "Arco" director Ugo Bienvenu in a ...

French animated short tells story of Jewish swimmer who survived Auschwitz

The film is based on the extraordinary real life of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish athlete whose story of resilience under Nazi persecution has previously been told in two French documentaries. At first ...
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The real Holocaust history behind ‘Papillon,’ the Oscar-nominated short about a star Jewish swimmer

A painterly animated film revives the memory of French Olympic hero Alfred Nakache, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz ...