Tribute Evening in Honour of Jacques Bensimon

Man of letters, cinema and conviction

TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2012 /CNW/ - The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Groupe Média TFO and Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have organized an evening in tribute to Jacques Bensimon that will take place on Monday, December 3, at 6p.m. at the Bell Blue Room of the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. The event will also provide an opportunity to present his book, Agadir, un paradis dérobé, posthumously published by Editions L'Harmattan.

Members of the Bensimon family, as well as friends and former colleagues, will take part in the tribute, which will include testimonials, film excerpts and readings from Jacques Bensimon's book, in which he recounts the early years of his life in Agadir, Morocco. Fifty years after the earthquake that destroyed his hometown in a matter of seconds, the author gives an overview of Morocco's history up to the time his family left for Canada.