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Israel

Chaja & Mimi

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons, grown up in Berlin, had to escape to Palestine from the Nazis in 1934. In a café in Tel Aviv they reflect about their difficult relationship to Berlin.

The freedom last but one

The blue sky arching above the young boy in Auschwitz-Birkenau is his refuge. And so it remains. In his diaries, survivor Otto Dov Kulka crafts landscapes. The film mirrors them.

Ink of Yam

A bang. Silence. Sirens. Window panes shake, but the needle continues to stab ink under the skin. Ink of Yam tells stories from one of the oldest tattoo studios in Jerusalem.