Son of Saul

Synopsis

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.

While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son.

As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

About the Director

László Nemes was born in 1977 in Budapest, Hungary. After studying History, International Relations and Screenwriting in Paris, he started working as an assistant director in France and Hungary on short and feature films. For two years, he worked as Béla Tarr’s assistant and subsequently studied film directing in New York.

Son of Saul is his first feature.

Festivals, Screenings, & Awards

Academy Awards, 2016

-Winner, Best Foreign Language Film

BAFTA, 2016

-Best Film Not in the English Language

Cannes Film Festival, 2015

-Winner, FIPRESCI Prize – Winner

-Winner, François Chalais Award – Winner

-Winner, Grand Prize of the Jury –

-Nominated, Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist (Tamás Zány, sound designer)

-Nominated, Golden Camera

-Nominated, Palme d’Or

Faro Island Film Festival, 2015

– Winner, Best Newcomer (László Nemes & Géza Röhrig)

– Nominated, Best Film

Ghent International Film Festival, 2015

– Nominated, Best Film

Hamburg Film Festival, 2015

– Nominated, Critics Award

London Film Festival, 2015

– Nominated, Best Film

Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival, 2016

– Winner, Directors to Watch

San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2015

– Nominated FIPRESCI Film of the Year

Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival, 2016

– Winner, Virtuoso Award (Géza Röhrig)

Sarajevo Film Festival, 2015

– Winner, Special Jury Prize – Nominated, Heart of Sarajevo

SESC Film Festival, Brazil, 2017

– Winner, Best Foreign Film

Stockholm Film Festival, 2015

– Winner, Best Director – Nominated, Bronze Horse

São Paulo International Film Festival, 2015

– Nominated, International Jury Award

Tromsø International Film Festival, 2016

– Nominated, Aurora Award

Zagreb Film Festival, 2015

– Winner, The Golden Pram

JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Orange County International Jewish Film Festival – 2015

Boston Jewish Film Festival – 2015

Boulder Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Jewish International Film Festival (Australia) – 2015

Michiana Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Moscow Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival – 2015

UK Jewish Film Festival – 2015

White Mountain Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival – 2016

Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival – 2015