Far from finding large weapon bases, the Cold War hotspots he discovers in the film are no more than grey desert towns that had been stripped from their original settlers in (re)foundational bloodbaths. Nuclear Family is pierced through by a historical inquiry that is also a personal one – how does one build an individual, family identity when one’s material condition of existence is an enormous pile of dead bodies?
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Tormented by his childhood’s nuclear fantasies, Travis Wilkerson (in co-direction with his partner Erin) exorcises his ghosts with a family road movie that takes him to Western USA after missile silos that used to promise an instant apocalypse.
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From Hilde, with Love In Liebe, Eure Hilde
Andreas Dresen
Friday, 22. 11. 2024 / 11:00 / Main Hall
A drama based on the lives of real Nazi resistance fighters, foregrounding the quiet strength of a young woman defying the regime in Nazi prisons with a principled stand and a belief in human kindness.
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Manas Manas
Marianna Brennand
Friday, 22. 11. 2024 / 14:30 / Main Hall
Documentary filmmaker Marianna Brennand’s feature debut is the result of a decade of research into child sexual abuse in the Amazon rainforest.
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Perspectives
Julie Keeps Quiet Julie zwijgt
Leonardo van Dijl
Friday, 22. 11. 2024 / 16:45 / Main Hall
Belgian tennis prodigy Tessa Van den Broeck makes her screen debut in this story about a talented athlete who decides to keep silent after her coach is accused of misconduct.