Friday, September 5 at 6:50: Q&A with director Oren Rudavsky, producer Tal Mandil, producer/editor Michael Chomet, and animator Joel Orloff
Saturday, September 6 at 6:50: Q&A with director Oren Rudavsky and co-producer Annette Insdorf
Sunday, September 7 at 2:10: Q&A with director Oren Rudavsky and Annette Insdorf, co-producer and Columbia University Film Professor
Sunday, September 7 at 4:30: Q&A with director Oren Rudavsky and Elisha Wiesel, son of Elie Wiesel
Sunday, September 14 at 3:45: Q&A with director Oren Rudavsky, Lynn Bartner Wiesel, and Paris Murray (Northstar Academy, Newark, New Jersey, Teacher, And Principal)
Eighty years after his family’s deportation and the wholesale slaughter of European Jewry, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire explores the man behind the searing memoir Night. The narration is in his own voice, revealing the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his conflicts, memories, and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, and using original interviews with his wife Marion and son Elisha, the film has a unique intimacy. It also includes his passion for human rights, whether confronting President Ronald Reagan about visiting a German cemetery, or pleading with President Clinton to take action during the war in Bosnia. With hand-painted animation by Joel Orloff and a score by Osvaldo Golijov, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire illuminates the survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.
Photo by Bernard Gotfryd via Getty Images
Audience award for Best Documentary at Rochester JFF
YAD VASHEM- DOC AVIV Award 2025
Audience Award for Best Documentary - Pittsburgh JFF
Torchbearer Award, Miami JFF