Buenos Aires in the late 1950s. "Warst du bei den Deutschen?" ("Where you over at the Germans' place?") Sulamit's Jewish-German father asks his teenage daughter. "Friedrich es Argentino como yo!" is her defiant reply. This is the irony and dilemma of displacement, exile and loss of identity in a nutshell, delicately portrayed in Jeanine Meerapfel's MY GERMAN FRIEND, which has played BFI London as well as the Sao Paulo Film Festival.The Toronto Jewish Film Festival and the Goethe-Institut Toronto are co-presenting the Canadian premiere of
Jeanine Meerapfel: MY GERMAN FRIEND
April 21, 2013, 3pm
ROM Signy and Cléopheé Eaton Theatre, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON
Watch the (German) trailer here.
Email jutta.brendemuehl@toronto.goethe.org for a chance to win 1 of 2 pairs of tickets to our only screening in Canada. (Only the 2 winners will be contacted.)
Next week: The director's comments on her film, inspired by her own life and family history.
by Jutta Brendemühl, Goethe-Institut Toronto
