Jake Paltrow’s (“Young Ones,” “De Palma”) latest film, “June Zero,” breaks itself into three distinctive points of view. The film follows the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during World War II. Rather than focusing on Eichmann himself, the film revolves around those whose lives were touched by the trial and his crimes.

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How do our perceptions shape history? Director Jake Paltrow uses three characters to show a historical event’s impact in “June Zero.” The film’s starting point is the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, a major Holocaust organizer. A prison guard, a police investigator, and a 13-year-old all find themselves dealing with its aftermath.

For Paltrow, the project signals something profound in his filmography.” I like to think of myself as someone who is working in personal spaces, and on the surface, this may seem like the least personal movie I’ve made, but somehow I feel it is the most personal one,” the filmmaker said. 

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Set around the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during World War II, Jake Paltrow’s latest film, “June Zero,” follows three characters on the periphery of history. The film follows a teenage Libyan immigrant named David, a Moroccan prison guard named Hiyam, and a Polish survivor of Auschwitz who became the chief interrogator at Eichmann’s trial, Micha. As each character finds their lives intertwined in the same strand of history in the making, Paltrow examines the very nature of history itself. 

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Shot in lush super 16mm, Jake Paltrow’s “June Zero” takes a unique look back at the execution of Adolf Eichmann after his trial in Israel during the early 1960s. Told in a triptych, the film follows 13-year-old Libyan immigrant David (Noam Ovadia), who claims to have worked on the oven where Eichmann’s corpse was incinerated. Hayim (Yoav Levi, “Zero Dark Thirty”), a Moroccan guard assigned to Eichmann’s jail cell, and Micha (Tom Hagi), a Polish survivor of Auschwitz who became the chief interrogator at the trial. 

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The summer festival season is off and running and this morning the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival announced their premiere selections for this July’s 2022 edition. Outside of it’s long running Crystal Globe competition, KVIFF revealed a new section, the Proxima Competition, for younger and first-time filmmakers. Eastern European films always dominate KVIFF, but, intriguingly, this year will feature Jake Paltrow’s latest endeavor, “June Zero.” His last narrative directorial effort was “Young Ones” in 2014.

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