The Watchman
After 10 years in Germany, where he acquired "the beautiful language of the former arch enemy", the filmmaker returns to Haifa and looks at his home from a changed perspective. As a Holocaust survivor…
The Watchman
After 10 years in Germany, where he acquired "the beautiful language of the former arch enemy", the filmmaker returns to Haifa and looks at his home from a changed perspective. As a Holocaust survivor's son, that chose to emigrate to Germany, I search after the cognitive presence of the Holocaust and its possible influence on us. The interview segments serve as a textual frame for a world of images, which is shifting between description and reflection. The subjective character of the film derives from the strong bond between our trauma and the story we carry/ which carries us. The political significance takes a clearer place as the scenery changes from Germany and Poland, towards my hometown Haifa, where Jews and Arabs live side by side.
The Watchman
Drama
Film Details
After 10 years in Germany, where he acquired "the beautiful language of the former arch enemy", the filmmaker returns to Haifa and looks at his home from a changed perspective. As a Holocaust survivor's son, that chose to emigrate to Germany, I search after the cognitive presence of the Holocaust and its possible influence on us. The interview segments serve as a textual frame for a world of images, which is shifting between description and reflection.
The subjective character of the film derives from the strong bond between our trauma and the story we carry/ which carries us. The political significance takes a clearer place as the scenery changes from Germany and Poland, towards my hometown Haifa, where Jews and Arabs live side by side..