CATERPILLAR by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Caterpillar Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 2010 – 85 min. World premiere: Berlin Film Festival 2010 (Official Competition) Silver Bear for Best Actress for Shinobu TERAJIMA alt=”Caterpillar by Koji Wakamatsu” title=”Caterpillar (2010) by Koji Wakamatsu” width=”226″ height=”300″ class=”aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21″...

MURDER OF A HATMAKER by Catherine Bernstein

Original title: Assassinat d’une modiste Produced by Arte France, IO Production France – 2005 – 87 min. Synopsis Between her date of birth, on the 2nd of July 1901, and her deportation to Auschwitz, on the 18th of July 1943, in a wagon train leaving from Drancy, Odette Bernstein’s life left few traces, except those found in the administrative archives. This young and independent...

KASSEL, 1930S: A GERMAN TRILOGY by Catherine Bernstein

Includes three films: Oma / The Sour Grapes / The Absentees Original titles: Oma / Les raisins verts / Les absentes Produced by IO Production France – 1996/1998/1999 – 58/56/87 min. A riveting and sometimes frightening investigation about Nazism experienced by a 1933 German class questioned sixty years later… OMA Oma is the German word for ‘GrandMa’. Catherine Bernstein’s wish...