The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer brings crowd to tears with powerful speech

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00:00 [ Applause ]

00:07 >> Thank you so much.

00:08 I'm going to read.

00:09 I'm afraid.

00:09 Thank you to the Academy for this honor

00:13 and to our partners A24 Film for Access

00:15 and the Polish Film Institute to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State

00:18 Museum for their trust and guidance.

00:20 To my producers, actors, collaborators,

00:22 all our choices were made to reflect and confront us

00:25 in the present, not to say look what they did then,

00:27 rather look what we do now.

00:29 Our film shows where dehumanization leads

00:32 at its worst.

00:33 It shaped all of our past and present.

00:36 Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness

00:40 and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led

00:43 to conflict for so many innocent people.

00:45 Whether the victims of October--

00:47 [ Applause ]

00:53 Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel

00:55 or the ongoing attack on Gaza,

00:58 all the victims of this dehumanization.

01:00 How do we resist?

01:02 [ Applause ]

01:09 Alexandra Bistron Koladziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film

01:13 as she did in life, chose to.

01:15 I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance.

01:18 Thank you.

01:18 [ Applause ]