Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’: New trailer and poster ahead of Special Tribute at Berlinale

I got the following press release today from the international press contact: claudiatomassini+associates, Claudia Tomassini  claudia@claudiatomassini.com

Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’: New trailer and poster ahead of Special Tribute at Berlinale Ahead of its screening in official selection (Berlinale Special) at the 75th Berlinale, mk2 Films reveals a new poster and trailer for Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 milestone film ‘Shoah’.
Part of the 2025 Berlinale Special programme, Shoah stands as a monumental work in the history of cinema. Claude Lanzmann received the Honorary Golden Bear in 2013. His masterpiece was previously honoured in Berlin with the Caligari Film Award, the OCIC Award, and the FIPRESCI Prize. In 1987, Shoah also won two BAFTA awards, including the Flaherty Documentary Award. In 2023, Shoah was added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. It joins a select few works of cinematic heritage in the Memory of the World collection, including the Lumière Brothers’ archives, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados, and the complete works of Ingmar Bergman. mk2 Films represents 6 films by Claude Lanzmann. The new poster of Shoah is the work of acclaimed Polish designer Aleksander Walijewski. The artwork captures that it is only through the collective gaze of the many individuals featured in the film over the course of its 9 hours and 30 minutes that makes it possible to begin to understand what the Holocaust truly was. Lanzmann’s groundbreaking documentary Shoah made cinematic history with its telling of the story of the “unspeakable” — the systematic extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. Lanzmann’s unique and daring formal choice of focusing on the voice of Holocaust survivors without additional archival footage to shape this narrative as well as the unparalleled wealth of testimonies presented in its epic runtime of 9 hours and 30 minutes make Shoah a widely acclaimed milestone of the documentary genre. Its production was a long and arduous journey, with preparation and filming spanning from 1973 to 1981, followed by nearly five years of editing. The Paris-based company is also bringing to Berlin a new film by Guillaume Ribot, which will premiere in Berlinale Special. 40 years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Ribot’s All I Had Was Nothingness reveals the director’s relentless 12-year pursuit to tell the untold story of the Holocaust, using only Lanzmann’s words and never- before-seen footage from the masterpiece. All I Had Was Nothingness is a production of Les Films du Poisson (Little Girl Blue, Academy Award-nominated The Gatekeepers) and Les Films Aleph (A Visitor From the Living, The Karski Report), in co-production with ARTE France.— 

About mk2 Filmsmk2 Films is a co-producer, sales agent and distributor, known for acclaimed, award-winning films, such as Academy Awards® and and Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet, The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier, Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma and Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski. Founded in 1974, mk2 Films is a home for established and upcoming talent; driven by filmmakers who tell stories that can strike a universal chord, who say something about the world we live in, and who are politically as well as artistically minded. mk2 Films distributes a unique library of 1 000 films in France and around the world. A rich collection of fiction, animation and documentaries, which includes titles from Charles Chaplin, Francois Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Krzysztof Kieślowski, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Gus Van Sant, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont, and Leos Carax – to name but a few… A large number of our classic titles have been restored. The film collection also accounts for some of the major films from the very pioneers of the industry, including D.W. Griffith and Alice Guy-Blaché, to Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton right up to today’s most acclaimed directors such as Xavier Dolan and Jia Zhang-Ke. 
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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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