Half Sister
Synopsis
At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his half-sister, Toncia, who was killed when she was 6 years old. At age 36, Ravett saw a photograph of his half-sister for the first time. Half Sister is a cinematic amalgam of memory and imagination, inspired by Ravett’s conception of a life that would have been.
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Abraham Ravett
Abraham Ravett holds a B.F.A and M.F.A in filmmaking and photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past forty years. He was born in Poland and raised in Israel and the U.S.A.
His films have been screened internationally, including at several one-person shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. His work has won “Top Prize” at the Viennale 2000, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Onion City Film/Video Festival. A retrospective of Ravett’s films was shown at the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw , Poland and at the 2014 Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
