Look to the Sky

Director Roberto Faenza constructs the narrative by relying on the subdued, subjective perspective of a child. He explores the Holocaust not through grand horrors, but through the microscopic details of a lost childhood—the taste of a stolen carrot, the rules of an invented game, the silence of parents.

What lingers after the viewing is not a loud shock, but a quiet, aching void. Those who tire of conventional war dramas will find a profoundly intimate and devastating portrait of innocence systematically dismantled. — MovieFinder Editorial