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Cape Town-based filmmaker releases Grandpa Ernest Speaks, a documentary telling the story of her Jewish great-grandfather who escaped Nazi-occupied Prague. Here's where you can watch it:

– a short documentary she wrote and directed.on the platform, Girls in Film. It will also make a German premiere this week as an official selection in the 2022 Refugees Welcome Film Festival, hosted at Berlin’s historic Babylon Cinema.is a personal story, centring around Bazil’s own great-grandfather Ernest and his experience of escaping from Nazi-occupied Prague as a Jewish refugee during the Holocaust.

The film was the production for Bazil’s master’s thesis at UCT’s Centre for Film and Media Studies. It premiered in South Africa this winter, in the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. It has since screened internationally across Europe in Czechia, Greece, Poland, Portugal, and Romania.Bazil is 27 years old and is an American artist based in South Africa.

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