Feature Film Official Selection

Heimat is a Space in Time

By recovering letters, documents and reports, Thomas Heise takes a look back at the first half of the twentieth century: a period in which social and economic uncertainty, class conflicts, major political tensions and the obsession with ideas like “homeland” and “race” led to two wars that spilled the blood of countless millions of people. In this catastrophe, in which Germany played a key role, Jewish people or those who had married them bore the brunt. But the worst disaster is that those massacres have not disappeared from our contemporary societies. Like a virus that had remained latent, many of the same ideas and social structures still linger on today waiting for a new time to sprout anew.

Screening

Date
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Time
19:00
Venue
El Almacén
Runtime
216′
Language
German and Korean
Subtitles
Spanish

Creative Team

Author & Director
Thomas Heise
Director of Photography
Stefan Neuberger
Sound
Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
Editor
Chris Wright
Commissioning Editor
Udo Bremer (ZDF/3sat)
Co-producers
Johannes Rosenberger, Constantin Wulff, Johannes Holzhausen
Producer
Heino Deckert

Technical Information

Original Title
Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
Year
2019
Country
Germany, Austria
Exhibition Format
DCP