Hatred

This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to New York the filmmaker found increasing tension between blacks and Jews. Calvin Butts, Pastor of the Abysinnian Baptist Church, talks about the history of discrimination faced by American blacks. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton feels that grou Returning to New York the filmmaker found increasing tension between blacks and Jews. Calvin Butts, Pastor of the Abysinnian Bapti The dcumentary won awards as follows: Winner! ATOM Award for Best Social Issues Documentary (1997). Barcelona International Women's Film Festival (1997) Jerusalem Film Festival(1997) Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival(1997) Australian Teachers Of Media Inc(1997) Feminale International Women's Film Festival, Cologne(1996) Cologne Conference - Internationales Fernsehfest Koln (1996)