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Sometimes the boundaries between victim and perpetrator aren’t so clear. Join Israeli-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, on her journey to reconcile competing traumatic histories in Germany, Israel and Palestine. With an empathetic ear, Bloch turns to subjects who, like her, have defined themselves through long-held narratives of hatred and division: Germans living in the shadow of Nazi crimes and Palestinians resisting the occupation of their lands. As moving stories from both sides are laid bare, the lines that divide begin to fall apart. Spurred by a rising wave in anti-Semitism and fascism around the world, Bloch’s nuanced film makes the case that the way forward lies in confronting a past that continues to wound in the present.
In English, German, Arabic and Hebrew