41st DOK.fest Munich 2026FATHER, SON, AND THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE
FATHER, SON, AND THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE has been invited to the international competition and will have its world premiere on Friday, May 8, at 9:00 p.m. at the HFF Audimax Cinema. Three additional screenings on Saturday, May 9, at 6:00 p.m., HFF Cinema 2; on Friday, May 15, 8:00 p.m., Rottmann; on Saturday, May 16, at 1:00 p.m., City Kinos Atelier 1. A film by Götz Schauder with Aram Radomski and Gerd Neumann about phantom pains 35 years after the fall of the Wall. Götz Schauder and producer Hubertus Siegert will be available for a Q&A following the first two screenings.
This formally surprising documentary unfolds with cinematic grace as it traces the fractures of an East German family marked by dictatorship, secret service surveillance and post-war trauma. What sets the film apart is the director’s audacious, almost therapeutic approach: he creates a cinematic family constellation by orchestrating a dialogue between the father, son, and other relatives including video messages, letters, Super 8 home movies, and state TV archives. Rather than offering simple resolutions, the film reveals layer upon layer of denial and myth, exposing how political violence permeates bodies, language, and silence. The result is a rare work of non-fiction that is simultaneously a historical excavation, an intimate drama, and a radical experiment in how cinema can heal, without ever pretending to cure.
41st DOK.fest Munich 2026FATHER, SON, AND THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE
FATHER, SON, AND THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE has been invited to the international competition and will have its world premiere on Friday, May 8, at 9:00 p.m. at the HFF Audimax Cinema. Three additional screenings on Saturday, May 9, at 6:00 p.m., HFF Cinema 2; on Friday, May 15, 8:00 p.m., Rottmann; on Saturday, May 16, at 1:00 p.m., City Kinos Atelier 1. A film by Götz Schauder with Aram Radomski and Gerd Neumann about phantom pains 35 years after the fall of the Wall. Götz Schauder and producer Hubertus Siegert will be available for a Q&A following the first two screenings.
This formally surprising documentary unfolds with cinematic grace as it traces the fractures of an East German family marked by dictatorship, secret service surveillance and post-war trauma. What sets the film apart is the director’s audacious, almost therapeutic approach: he creates a cinematic family constellation by orchestrating a dialogue between the father, son, and other relatives including video messages, letters, Super 8 home movies, and state TV archives. Rather than offering simple resolutions, the film reveals layer upon layer of denial and myth, exposing how political violence permeates bodies, language, and silence. The result is a rare work of non-fiction that is simultaneously a historical excavation, an intimate drama, and a radical experiment in how cinema can heal, without ever pretending to cure.
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S.U.M.O. FILM
office (at) sumofilm.de
SPICE FILM
office (at) spaicefilm.de