Ciné-débat : Journée iInternationale à la mémoire des victimes de l’holocauste

Some journeys are sadly etched in history. The great journey of Jorge Semprun is one of them. Similarly, the "Death Train" and cattle cars, primary means of Nazi deportation, have become iconic symbols of the Holocaust.

On this evening dedicated to remembrance, the themes of travel, train, hope, and love will be explored…

Through this commemorative day, the Jehanne Arnaud Media Library and the Le Pagnol cinema come together to invite you to discover a work, a film, an author…

THE FILM: THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES (2024)

A Franco-Belgian animated film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg.

Once upon a time, in a great forest, there was a poor woodcutter and his wife…

Once upon a time, in Paris, there was a Jewish family: two parents and their newborn twins, who were arrested and deported. In the convoy heading to Auschwitz, the father throws one of his children out of the train in the hope of saving their life…

THE DEBATE: FROM BOOK TO FILM - A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

Join the librarians of the Media Library for a journey that will take you from Jean-Claude Grumberg's novel to Michel Hazanavicius's animated film. Whales are portrayed as a symbol of the necessity to preserve marine biodiversity in a film debate presented by the Jehanne Arnaud Media Library, the Animal Welfare and Biodiversity Department, the Gulf of Saint-Tropez Maritime Spaces Department, and Le Pagnol cinema in honor of World Sea Day.


The Heathcote Williams poem Whale Nation serves as the basis for the 2023 French documentary directed by Jean-Albert Lièvre.


An isolated coastline was recently visited by a humpback whale. You can learn about the fascinating history of cetaceans, marine mammals that have existed in the world's waters for more than 50 million years and been fundamental to the ecosystem of our planet as a group of men and women organize its rescue.

THE DEBATE: Conservation concerns for Mediterranean cetaceans. moderated by employees of the Golfe de Saint-Tropez's Maritime parks division.
Cinema Le Pagnol