Anne Aghion

Cynthia Kane

Nadia Ben Rachid

Saumyananda Sahi

Justin Messina

Mélissa Petitjean

Eve Ramboz

Wilfrid Rouff

Anita Kirpalani

In TURBULENCE, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion brings us on her decades-long global odyssey to overcome loss. Through a series of tender, honest and visually stunning cinematic letters to the mother she lost at age ten and barely remembers, she grapples with the long-ignored effect of this death, the suppressed memories of her father’s life during the Holocaust, and a career as a filmmaker spent avoiding her own grief by giving voice to people who’ve survived extreme poverty and genocide. With a collage of home movies, outtakes from her previous films and original animated artwork embedded in grandiose footage of vast landscapes that take us to India, France, Rwanda, Antarctica and New York, Anne Aghion asks a question we all face : How do we live past the heartbreaks, sorrows and traumas we endure or witness and come out whole?

In her award-winning film career, Anne Aghion has travelled the world 
and borne witness to the lives of people who have survived the most 
extreme circumstances. In TURBULENCE, she grapples with the shadows cast
 over her own life — losing
 her mother when she was a child, and her father’s memories of life 
during the Holocaust. Through a series of tender, honest and visually 
stunning cinematic letters to her mother, she recounts her sometimes 
shocking odyssey in search of resolution and peace.

Miami Jewish Film Festival

Dharamshala International Film Festival

“Revisiting her life as a woman and her journey as a filmmaker […the film] speaks to each of us […], to our innermost selves.”

François Ekchazjer

“Stunningly beautiful […], an ode to life, and the creation of happiness.”

Gilles Kepel

“Anne Aghion delivers a cinematic letter that is both humble and moving.” 4/5

“It’s rare to make such a powerful and magnificent personal film […] Sublime cinematography.”

Robert Sender

“These superb landscapes […] contribute to the magic […] and the dreamlike quality [of the film].”

Nathalie Amar



Multiple award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion is praised as a poetic filmmaker who gets to the emotional core of the people and stories she covers. She gained international renown for THE GACACA SERIES (pr. ga-CHA-cha), four films on post-genocide justice and social reconstruction in Rwanda. 

Her 2008 feature ICE PEOPLE was described by Variety as “staggeringly beautiful,” and New York Magazine’s noted critic Bilge Ebiri wrote that “it might be the most immersive documentary I’ve ever seen.”

A Guggenheim fellow, Anne Aghion is an EMMY award recipient, and her film MY NEIGHOR MY KILLER was one of the rare documentaries at the time to premiere as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

Contact us at anneaghionfilms.com
