The festival launches 6.30pm Friday with the French Ambassador, Antoinette Lenormand (Director of INHA) and a screening of Anne Webber"s film "Making A Killing' about the Gutmann family’s 50-year quest to recover their looted art collection, followed by a debate with
Emmanuelle Polack (Head of the Archives of the Musée des Monuments français),
Fabio Isman (Italian journalist,
Il Messaggero),
Anne Webber (Founder and Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe) and
Melissa Müller and
Monika Tatzkow (co-authors of
Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft and the Quest for Justice), chaired by Martin Bailey,
The Art Newspaper. For details of all events, click
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