Edition: 2013
Selected by the Festival: DAYS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Year of production: 2009
Country of production: Israel, Germany
Production: Heymann Brothers Films
Set in: Israel
Duration: 71'
Film: Color
Directed by: Tomer Heymann
Seventy years after his grandfather escaped from Nazi Germany, Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann returns to his ancestral home to present a film at the Berlin International Film Festival. It is there that he meets a man who will change his life. When Merk decides to move with Tomer to Tel Aviv, he must cope not only with a partner who insists on filming his every move, but also with his relationship to Israel as a German with Nazi ties in his family’s past. Meanwhile, Heymann’s mother battles a crippling illness and watches as four of her five sons leave the country that she and her family helped build. A personal but universal story, the film is an intimate portrait of two persons confronting the challenges posed by their families, their national histories, and their own emotions.
Date of the projection:
23/04/2013 7:15 pm
Location of the projection: Cinema Multisala Modena (viale S. Francesco D’Assisi, 6 – Trento)