In 2005s A Love to Hide, Sara, a young Jewish girl lost and orphaned in the Holocaust, is sheltered by Jean, a gentile friend who tries to pass her off as a Gallic employee of his familys laundry business. But when the Gestapo starts hounding Jean and his companion, Philippe, Sara, along with the audience, comes face-to-face with another Holocaust, the Third Reichs systematic persecution of homosexuals. (Approximately 100,000 homosexuals were rounded up from 1939 to 1945.) While Schindlers List broke down barriers for films depicting the Nazis genocidal actions against Jews, only a few movies have ventured into the emotionally unsettling and historically underexplored territory of the other victims of Hitlers Germany. A Love to Hide, by French director Christian Faure, is one of the few.
Catch both films today as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houstons leg of the Jewish Community Centers Jewish Film Festival. Beaufort screens at 3 p.m. and A Love to Hide at 7:30 p.m. Both films also screen Saturday, Beaufort at 7:30 p.m. and A Love to Hide at 9:30 p.m. 1001 Bissonnet. For tickets and information, call 7136397515 or visit www.mfah.org. $8 per film.
Sat., March 22, 7 p.m.; Sun., March 23, 3 p.m., 2008