A Documentary by Esther Zimmering
Esther Zimmering's directorial debut
Swimmingpool am Golan (The Golan Swimmingpool, 2018) links three generations of German-Jewish life in Germany, the GDR and Israel. Using archive footage, photos, and interviews, Zimmering goes on a journey to uncover the secrets and inconsistencies in her family's history. A history that saw Esther's grandmother Lizzi and her cousin, great-aunt Lore, being the only Holocaust survivors, who lived for the rest of their lives in Israel. Since 1989, Esther has been visiting her family in Israel frequently. In trying to understand Jewishness and socialist ideals, there remain questions that neither her family in Israel nor that in former East Germany can answer.
Director Esther Zimmering
Esther Zimmering was born in Potsdam in 1977. She is an actress and director, known for her work in Der Liebe entgegen (2002), Kleine Schwester (2004), Der Fußfesselmörder (2003) and Vivere (2007).
Swimming Pool am Golan (2018) is her directorial debut, in which she follows the tracks of her German-Jewish family in Germany, the GDR and Israel.
Moderator: Claudia Sandberg, film scholar and film-maker, University of Melbourne
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registration you will be given a streaming link to watch the movie between 1.12. and 2.12.2020. The live Q&A with film director Ester Zimmering and her Father will be on 3.12.2020 via Zoom.
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