Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah
Documentarian, writer, and journalist Claude Lanzmann would have turned 100 in 2026. Shoah continues to resonate with cinephiles and all attentive audiences seeking to understand the history of the twentieth century. In collaboration with researcher and author Rémy Besson, we are organizing this evening as a space for discussion and a rediscovery of the film Shoah.
In the presence of the filmmaker
Nearly six years of her life went into editing Shoah, the groundbreaking work by Claude Lanzmann. Her name: Ziva Postec. This meticulous craftswoman, working quietly in the background, performed her task with a devotion bordering on obsession. From Jaffa, Israel, she looks back on an extraordinary creative undertaking.
Catherine Hébert
After graduating from international journalism studies, Catherine Hébert traveled for the first time to West Africa. This journey awoke an acute interest for Africa and the documentary genre. She directed numerous short films and documentaries that brought her to Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burkina Faso. He work is nourished by her preoccupations for human rights, history, and politics. In 2008, Hébert’s feature documentary The Other Side of the Country about war in northern Uganda has been critically acclaimed and selected at many festivals. Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2007 Montreal International Film Festival (RIDM), the documentary was also nominated for a Jutra Prize. Her film Notes on a Road Less Taken has won the Grand Prize in the National Feature Competition at the 2011 RIDM. In 2018, she directed a documentary about Ziva Postec, editor of Claude Lanzmann’s masterpiece Shoah.
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