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German Competition Short Film 2020
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Riven Threads
Deborah Jeromin
This cinematic search for traces takes us from silkworm breeding in a Leipzig allotment garden to the island of Crete. Idyll and war begin to converge – historical, scenic, complex, surprising.
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Riven Threads

Verwundene Fäden
Deborah Jeromin
German Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Germany
2020
40 minutes
German,
Greek
Subtitles: 
English

What’s the parallel between a Leipzig allotment club and the Wehrmacht’s invasion of Greece? Alert to historical lines of connection, outstanding archive material and enchanting images of the austere Cretan landscape, the complex links between silkworm breeding here and German war crimes there are laid bare. The focus is less on settling questions of guilt than on depicting the inner dynamics of war, resistance and forgetting.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Deborah Jeromin
Script
Deborah Jeromin
Editor
Deborah Jeromin, Sofia Hernández
Producer
Deborah Jeromin
Sound
Pedro de Sousa Pereira
Funder
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Stiftung Maecenia
Narrator
Myrsini Artakianou, Artemissia Anastassopolou, Eleni Papadaki, Zambia Tzanakaki, Vasso Athanassaki, Eleni Tzivaki, Katja Adamy
Winner of: Gedanken Aufschluss Prize