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In September 1940, after seven years of exile, Walter Benjamin crosses the Pyrenees in a desperate attempt to escape the Nazis. According to the official version, Walter Benjamin did make it across the French-Spanish border successfully. But when he arrived in the Catalan town of Portbou, a sudden change in legislation impeded his entry into Spain and he was obliged to spend the night at a local hotel under the close vigilance of three guards, whose orders were to deport him the following morning. In utter despair, Benjamin took his own life, swallowing an overdose of morphine. The local doctor,...

Director : David Mauas

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 73

Language : Spanish

From Where Shall My Help Come? - The Story of Fanny Rozelaar and Betty Mayer

This film tells the story of sisters Fanny Rozelaar and Betty Mayer, nee Ichenhauser. The two daughters were born to Arthur (Aharon Chaim) and Ada Victoria, nee Jacobson in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1919 and 1923 respectively.

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 60

Language : Hebrew

Olga

Drama. Follows the true story of German Jewish and communist activist Olga Benario who is sent on a mission to escort the head of the Brazilian communist party Luis Carlos Prestes from Moscow to Brazil where he is to lead the revolution. Along the way Olga falls in love with Luis and they marry. Under the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, Olga, who was by then pregnant, was arrested and deported to Germany. In a prison there, she gave birth to a daughter in 1936 and in 1938 sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp and finally gassed in 1942. Based on the biography titled 'Olga' by Fernando Morais.

Director : Jayme Monjardim

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 141

Language : English, Portuguese, Spanish

The House on Wannsee Street

A documentary film. The director of the film seeked to dig deep into her family history. Her discovery was a shck for her. Questions of identity, reselience, compassion, and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life as she confrots her relatives about her hidden Jewish identity. The film won best documentary film in Miami Jewish Film Festival 2020. The film was shown at the Jreusalem Jewish film Festival 2020.

Director : Poli Martinez Kaplun

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 70

Language : German

הלמוט ניוטון - הרע והיפה

A documentary film. Even though his fashion editorials were heavily influenced by 1930s German aesthetic, nobody could deny that Helmut Newton was a genius. His friends, colleagues, and the powerful women he photographed paint the portrait of this controversial photographer.

Director : Gero Von Boehm

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 93

Language : English, French, German

שוקן , על גבול הקונצנזוס

A documentary which tells the story of Salman Schocken. He was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in German and Hebrew and founded a modern, Jewish publishing house. He was the lifelong supporter of Shmuel Yosef Agnon and he owned the Haaretz newspaper which still survives on the border of consensus. He supported secular, Jewish culture and identified with humanist, liberal Judaism, a relic of 19th century Europe..

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 75

Language : German, Hebrew

Darmstadt synagogue Exhibition

סרט תיעודי קצר על שיפוץ בית הכנסת בדארמשטאט.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 12

The Last Goldfish

סרט תיעודי

Director : Su Goldfish

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 82

Language : English

Wir Sind Keine Dinosaurier-Jung und Juedisch in Deutschland

סרט תיעודי אודות נוער יהודי בגרמניה. הם הולכים לבית הספר, יש להם הרבה חברים, ומאשרים להם כל מה שקשור למוזיקה וריקודים. ליסה, אווה ו סמואל מדרום גרמניה הם צעירים שדתם היא יהודית. אנחנו פוגשים אותם פעם ראשונה בJEWROVISION , הפסטיבל הגדול של שירים וריקודים יהודיים. כאן הם מרגישים שהם לא אקזוטיים. בחיי היום-יום הם לא תמיד מרגישים את זה כך. הם מרגישים תסכול ואפילו הסגת גבול, הם לא רוצים להצטמצם רק עד לשואה ומרגישים כצעירים גרמנים בכלל לא אחראים בשביל הסכסוך הישראלי-פלסטינאי, אפילו שמדינת ישראל אומר להם הרבה. "אנחנו לא דינוזאורים-צעיר ויהודי בגרמניה" מתאר איך הם חיים, חושבים, מבטאים את דתם וכיצד הם רואים מסורת. מעל כל...

Director : Silke Stürmer, Stefan Adam

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 21

Language : German

Rabbi Wolff - A Gentleman Before God

William Wolff is nearly 90 and perhaps the most unconventional rabbi in the world. As the State Rabbi of North-East Germany, he looks after the Jewish communities in Schwerin and Rostock, but still lives in a bungalow near Henley-on-Thames. He leads a Jet-Set-Life – flying from Heathrow to Germany each week. Rabbi Willy Wolff won audiences' hearts in Britta Wauer's hit film, In Heaven, Underground, about the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in Berlin. Wauer’s new film shows Wolff’s turbulent daily routine and looks at his eventful past: from fleeing Nazi Germany with his family as a child, to leaving behind his...

Director : Britta Wauer

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 90

Language : Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Russian

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