Si tu as faim, chante. Si tu as mal, ris

Paris-born Vancouver transplant Michèle Smolkin directs this affecting and wonderfully idiosyncratic portrait of her uncle, a centenarian whose life spanned a century of conflict and upheaval. Born in Poland in 1914 to a Communist mother and a devout father, Sam Rechtman was witness to the changing face of twentieth-century Europe—from anti-Semitic pogroms to the Russian Revolu...