In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
TACHELES-THE HEART OF THE MATTER (Endlich Tacheles) Buy Tickets
TUESDAY, Nov. 14 , 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany 2020, 104 min; Feature Documentary
Language: German, Hebrew, English with English and German subtitles
Directed by Jana Matthes & Andrea Schramm
Three generations removed from the Holocaust; Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner desperate to leave the past behind.
He develops a computer game set in 1940s Germany featuring a young Jewish girl based on his grandmother, Rina, which enables Jews to defend themselves, and Nazis to act humanely. Yaar’s father is shocked, and the work opens old family wounds left unaddressed for generations. Tacheles – The Heart of the Matter follows the journey of this family’s painful confrontation with history that will forever change Yaar’s relationships with his father, and explores with growing self-awareness how trauma of survivors is inherited, asking the burning question from the perspective of a 21-year-old: what does the Holocaust have to do with me?
TACHELES – The Heart of the Matter – shows how the trauma of the survivors affects the third generation. By blurring the truth and switching the roles of victims and perpetrators – can anyone cope with his own history?

Is reconciliation possible with a Computer Game?

Supported by: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

Festivals

  • New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival, US, 2021
  • London Human Rights Watch Film Festival, UK, 2022
  • Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Canada, 2022
  • DOK.fest Munchen 2020
  • Kassel Dokfest 2020
  • CLIO 2020 Nomination – Moving History Festival Award