Nowhere in Africa

Director: Caroline Link

2002 / 141min / 35mm

Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Link’s epic, decade-spanning adaptation of the autobiographical bestseller by Stefanie Zweig follows a German Jewish family—husband, wife, and five-year-old daughter—who flee c. 1938 Germany to begin a new life on a farm in Kenya, variously flourishing in and struggling to adapt to their adopted home. “It is so rare to find a film where you become quickly, simply absorbed in the story… the narrative [flows] as it might in memory.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Introduction by Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo, Co-Founders and Co-Presidents of Zeitgeist Films on November 4th at 5:15pm