Feature Films
MONUMENT (75 min., 2023, USA/Hungary)
Select Screenings: Miami Jewish Film Festival, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (John A. Hellman Award Winner), Rhode Island International Film Festival, Holocaust Museum LA, Idaho Film Society
“Profoundly moving.” – Miami Jewish Film Festival
“A wondrous experience.” – Judy Margles, Executive Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education
“One of the most touching and impactful documentaries I have ever seen.” – Dr. Adara Goldberg, Executive Director, Holocaust Resource Center & Human Rights Institute, Kean University
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Feature Films
MONUMENT (75 min., 2023, USA/Hungary)
Select Screenings: Miami Jewish Film Festival, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (John A. Hellman Award Winner), Rhode Island International Film Festival, Holocaust Museum LA, Idaho Film Society
“Profoundly moving.” – Miami Jewish Film Festival
“A wondrous experience.” – Judy Margles, Executive Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education
“One of the most touching and impactful documentaries I have ever seen.” – Dr. Adara Goldberg, Executive Director, Holocaust Resource Center & Human Rights Institute, Kean University
Watch the Film | Educational Sales
Feature Films
MONUMENT (75 min., 2023, USA/Hungary)
Select Screenings: Miami Jewish Film Festival, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (John A. Hellman Award Winner), Rhode Island International Film Festival, Holocaust Museum LA, Idaho Film Society
“Profoundly moving.” – Miami Jewish Film Festival
“A wondrous experience.” – Judy Margles, Executive Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education
“One of the most touching and impactful documentaries I have ever seen.” – Dr. Adara Goldberg, Executive Director, Holocaust Resource Center & Human Rights Institute, Kean University
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THE WAY WE TALK (80 min., 2015, USA)
Select Screenings: One World International Human Rights Film Festival, Atlanta Documentary Film Festival, UCLA, NYU, Alamo Drafthouse, Portland Art Museum, California Film Institute
"Plainly narrated in an unapologetic stutter, The Way We Talk is a moving documentary about grappling with the parts of ourselves that make us feel ashamed." – Oregon Arts Watch
"An open conversation, beautifully documented, powerfully spoken." – Willamette Week
"Inspiring and enlightening. This, to me, is the unique power of film and, more specifically, documentary: to shine a light on subjects we overlook and make them personal and resounding to us all as a community." – Tim Williams, Executive Director, Oregon Governor's Office of Film and Television
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Short Films
CAT OF THE YEAR (6 min., 2025)
Select Screenings: Oregon Coast Film Festival, Fireweed Film Festival
CLOSURE (12 min., 2022)
Select Screenings: Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Hollywood Theater
SHELTERING SILVERTON (14 min., 2020)
Select Screenings: Eastern Oregon Film Festival, Silverton Art Association
A SALAD (3 min., 2010)
Select Screenings: Teeny Tiny Film Festival (Award Winner: Best Film)
Installations
Human Rights After The Holocaust (2022) – Permanent exhibition of video interviews with refugees, religious leaders, social advocates, and government officials at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
About
Michael Turner is an award-winning independent filmmaker, specializing in creating intimate documentaries that have screened around the world in many languages, and the Program Director of the Silver Falls Film Festival. He lives in rural Oregon with his family.
