Elie Wiesel: Soul On Fire

Official Selection - Telluride Film Festival 2025
Audience award for best feature film - Spokane JFF
Best Documentary Award - Moscow Jewish Film Festival 2025
Audience award for Best Documentary at Rochester JFF
Best Doc at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival
Recipient of YAD VASHEM- DOC AVIV prize for Holocaust related film!
Audience Award for Best Documentary - Pittsburgh JFF
Torchbearer Jury prize - Miami Jewish Film Festival

Eighty years after his family’s deportation and the wholesale slaughter of European Jewry, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire explores the man behind the searing memoir Night. The narration is in his own voice, revealing the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his conflicts, memories, and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, and using original interviews with his wife Marion and son Elisha, the film has a unique intimacy. It also includes his passion for human rights, whether confronting President Ronald Reagan about visiting a German cemetery, or pleading with President Clinton to take action during the war in Bosnia. With hand-painted animation by Joel Orloff and a score by Osvaldo Golijov, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire illuminates the survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.
Oren Rudavsky is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Rudavsky produced, directed and co-wrote the American Masters documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People which was nominated for a Critics Choice award. His film A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards.