Im Jahr 1962 wird die Welt Zeuge vom Prozess gegen und der Hinrichtung von Adolf Eichmann, einen der wichtigsten Architekten des Holocaust. Aus rechtlichen und politischen Gründen entscheiden sich die israelischen Behörden dafür, Eichmann nach seiner Hinrichtung einzuäschern. Doch wie soll das bewerkstelligt werden in Israel - einer Kultur, die Feuerbestattung nicht vorsieht? BURNING DAYS folgt drei unterschiedlichen Charakteren, die an diesem historischen, eine Nation prägenden Ereignis, beteiligt waren: David, einem aus Libyen eingewanderten Teenager, Hiyam, einem marokkanischen Gefängniswächter, und Mischa, einem polnischen Überlebenden von Auschwitz, der als Polizist am Gerichtsprozess auftritt.

In 1962, the world witnesses the execution of Adolf Eichmann in Israel after an emotional public trial. For various legal and political reasons, Israeli authorities chose to cremate the corpse. How this was accomplished in a culture and religion with no cremation is the foundation of this story and intimately connects three characters that were involved in this historical, nation-defining event. June Zero is the date printed on an Israeli tabloid from this era in an attempt by the editors at an anti-commemoration of Eichmann’s execution.

This thrilling yet, at its core, empathetic and humanist film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann's execution, it approaches the important and much publicized Nazi criminal through the eyes of three participants in these events.

I feel extremely privileged to have produced alongside some of the greatest movie directors of our time, but June Zero is by far one of the most culturally and personally relevant projects to me as a filmmaker. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Cohen Media on this beautiful view of history from the eyes of the little boy who experienced this miraculous and controversial event.

2022 Best Film Waterloo Historical Film Festival