Spaak was a builder of modern Europe, where we have lived in peace for 75 years.
About Us
Les Films de la Mémoire
Création et Mémoire
Nowhere Land Productions
Founded in 1987 by Diane Perelsztejn and Willy Perelsztejn, Les Films de la Mémoire ASBL is a non-profit organization based in Brussels, in the heart of Europe. Its aim is to build memory by developing, producing and distributing films of a specifically historical nature on all audiovisual media. Création & Mémoire and Nowhere Land Productions are the group’s Belgian and Luxembourg companies in charge of film production.
Our main production lines can be summed up in three words:
Memory
Identities
History
Our films are fortunate to have very successful international careers.
Our team
Willy
Perelsztejn
Producer / Director / Author
Emmanuel
Leraille
Producer / Production Manager
Bernd
Seliger
Production Coordinator / Artistic Director
Diane
Perelsztejn
Producer / Director / Author
Our Cinematography
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Escape to the Rising Sun
20,000 Jews fled Nazi persecution to find refuge in Shanghai, China. The film tells the story of the long exodus of 5,000 Jews who crossed the entire USSR and Japan before finally finding refuge in Shanghai.
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Chronicles of Hope
In July 1936, civil war broke out in Spain. It would last three years. 40,000 people from all over the world would fight in the International Brigades for the survival of the Spanish Republic.
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Rhodes Forever
It's a contemporary portrait, weaving imaginary family ties between the Jews of Rhodes and their descendants. The film recounts the survival of this community marked by the Shoah and its revival in the Belgian Congo.
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The Comic Strip Hits 100
Graphic novels are an art form in their own right. The heart of the film is built on the relationship between graphic novels and other arts: painting, literature, sculpture and cinema.
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Chocolat Mon Amour
Flavor, taste, sensuality, pleasure, voluptuousness, softness, smoothness, finesse, prestige, luxury, class, elegance, passion, art de vivre! Chocolat, mon amour tells the story of how chocolate went from being a luxury product to a sweet treat accessible to all.
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From Auschwitz to Jerusalem
This is the story of Jewish children hidden in Belgium to survive the genocide. After the war, they were orphaned and taken in by the Jewish Agency. They left clandestinely to emigrate to Palestine.
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Victor Martin's Mission
October 1942, Victor Martin is sent by the Belgian resistance to Germany to see with his own eyes where the trains deporting Belgium's Jews go. His mission takes him to the gates of Auschwitz.
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Robert Fortune the Tea Thief
In the mid-19th century, the British Empire launched an extraordinary espionage mission: to steal the secrets of the tea industry from Imperial China. The mission was entrusted to a brilliant young Scottish botanist: Robert Fortune.
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Les Routes du Thé
More than just a drink, tea represents an economic market in its own right, a product that arouses passions, an industry that dates back over 200 years.
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The Picture Divided
Within 15 years of Salazar's dictatorship, 800,000 Portuguese fled their country and settled in France. Most were undocumented immigrants. Using eyewitness accounts and archive footage, the film recounts their exile.
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Just a Link
A unique message of humanism and humanity from Resistance fighter Andrée Geulen. The story of 12 women from the Comité de Défense des Juifs, how they organized themselves in occupied Belgium to save thousands of children.
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Heim ins Reich
Heim ins Reich ("Back to the Reich"), recounts the failure of the annexation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.
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Siegi Hirsch - Weaving Human Relations
Siegi Hirsch has had a major influence on European psychiatry and psychotherapy. Educator, trainer, therapist, he lives to help others live better. He's a thief of ideas, an "irreferent"!
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Concert Yiddish Soul
The Concert Yiddish Soul on March 16, 2005 in Brussels embodies the renaissance of Yiddish song. Hosted by Myriam Fuks, Karsten Troyke, Shura Lipovsky and the KlezRoym revive an almost forgotten art form. Concert Yiddish Soul goes hand in hand with Yiddish Soul.
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Yiddish Soul
Yiddish Soul is a journey to the heart of the renaissance of Yiddish song, through the passion of Karsten Troyke, Shura Lipovsky, and the KlezRoym, young European artists.
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Luxemburg, USA
A contemporary portrait of rural, conservative Midwestern America, through the prism of a specific community, the descendants of Luxembourg immigrants, their way of life today and their history.
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The Lunch Box
In Belgium, there's an object called a sandwich box. It's ordinary, functional, commonplace. It doesn't appear in any French-language dictionary, but every day, Belgians use it to carry their meals - sandwiches.
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David Susskind - Story of a Mensch
Story of a Mensch is the portrait of David Susskind, player and witness to all the great struggles of Judaism over the last 60 years for Israel, for secular Judaism, for a solution of Peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Modus Operandi
Between 1942 and 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 returned. Modus Operandi describes the operating mode of the genocide committed by the Nazis.
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Kathleen Ferrier
A musical film dedicated to one of the greatest contraltos of the 20th century: the Englishwoman Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953). An international career that lasted 8 years. And yet a voice and charisma unequalled to this day.
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Paul & Sophie
Sophie Rechtman and Paul Sobol are two survivors of the Holocaust, she a hidden child and he a deportee to Auschwitz. Both tell their stories.
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Mille Chemins du Temps
Inventor Jean-Pierre Beauviala has left his mark on the history of cinema in recent decades, inspiring directors with new ways of approaching reality: the "cat on the shoulder" camera, sound/image synchronisation, the Aaton 30...
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Waterloo - The Last Battle
This is the thriller of one of history's most famous battles. Hour by hour, minute by minute, the film retraces the events of June 1815, Napoleon's defeat.
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Retrouvées
70 years after the Holocaust, three survivors, three separated friends reunite. They take us to the core of their memories as hidden children.
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The Paper Brigade
Saving the books! During the Nazi occupation of Vilnius, Lithuania, 40 Jewish poets, writers and intellectuals risked their lives to fight the Shoah of culture. They succeeded in saving tens of thousands of books.
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Ashcan - The Secret Prison
This is the story of a unique prison. From May 8, 1945 to August 10, 1945, the main Nazi leaders were held in the greatest secrecy at Ashcan, a prison administered by the American army in Luxembourg: Goering, Doenitz, Keitel, Rosenberg, Ley, Frank, Streicher, Seyss-Inquart, Lutz von Krosigk, von Papen...
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Codename: Ashcan
From May 8, 1945 to August 10, 1945, the main Nazi leaders were held at Ashcan, a secret prison in Luxembourg. This is the story of the metamorphosis of Nazi leaders from mere prisoners of war to those accused of the worst crimes in human history.
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Royals at War
Confronted with Hitler and Mussolini, how will Europe's monarchs react? To save their throne, they had to make a choice: resist or collaborate.
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Spaak - The Belgian who made History
First President of the UN, Secretary General of NATO, father of the Treaties of Rome, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium: Paul-Henri Spaak was a founder of modern Europe, where we have been living in peace for 75 years.
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Press Comments
Patrimoine
35 Years of Memory Work
In over 30 years of audiovisual production, we have created a HERITAGE of films dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust, the Resistance and the survivors. It's an essential part of our remembrance work. Our ambition is to provide the entire teaching and continuing education community with this high-quality tool for a comprehensive, pedagogical and relatively exhaustive approach to the Shoah and its context from Belgium and Luxembourg.