Amnesia

Program

Is oblivion achievable or is the forgotten merely repressed, hiding in the dark and waiting? An Ocean is a documentary about the resurfacing of a trauma that was kept submerged for 45 years. In the Croatian fiction film Letters a father and son reproach and so expose once more the wounds that have been dressed by decades of silence. Is this gap bridgeable? Three generations of a Turkish family in Germany are torn apart between feeling homesick and striving for a better future. The documentary Turkish Riviera presents their story. Looking back has no place in the world of the Croatian animated film The Tower – civilization hastily leaps forward. Is it in such a hurry out of fear from what’s left in its wake?