Film screening + welcoming of Guest of Honor 2024 in the Kulturscheune Eibenhof

Guest of honor 2024 Margot Friedländer

Born a Jewish German in Berlin in 1921, deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 and liberated in May 1945, Margot Friedländer narrowly escaped death at the hands of Nazi terror. She was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust. Margot Friedländer worked tirelessly for freedom, democracy and humanity. FILM WITHOUT BORDERS welcomes Margot Friedländer as this year's Guest of Honor 2024

Followed by film screening + film discussion Julia von Heinz

TREASURE - FAMILY IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

„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 study 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 directs 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 to be overcome trauma that casts a shadow over the next generation.“ (German Film and Media Rating)