Screening at the Kulturscheune Eibenhof
“An emotional tightrope walk between family fate and trauma, father and child, historical gravity and the contradictory lightness of the moment.” (Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg)
Shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain, New York music journalist Ruth Rothwax travels to Poland with her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, to dedicate herself to the legacy of her Jewish family. For her father, it is the first time he has returned to the places of his childhood. While Ruth wants to understand her parents’ traumas, Edek simply wants to leave the past behind and therefore sabotages her plans. During an eventful week, they uncover old family secrets and deepen their emotional relationship. Julia von Heinz adapts the key novel “Too Many Men” by Lily Brett and stages this moving story with warm humor.
TREASURE celebrated its world premiere at the 74th Berlinale in the Berlinale Special GALA section and is the crowning finale of Heinz’ Aftermath trilogy about the effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations.
“TREASURE is a warm-hearted, tragicomic and authentically narrated film about coming to terms with a terrible and probably never surmountable trauma that casts a shadow over the next generation.” (German Film and Media Rating)
Followed by a film talk with director Julia von Heinz