Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, January 10:
AFTERWARD
Director:
Ofra Bloch
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2018
Select Festivals:
San Francisco Jewish, Santa Barbara, RiverRun, Greenwich, Tel Aviv Human Rights, Big Muddy, Cleveland, Sarasota, Minneapolis-St Paul
About:
The filmmaker confronts her personal demons around Germany, Israel, and Palestine.
I wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
Ofra Bloch, a New York-based psychoanalyst specializing in trauma, was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family that emigrated to Palestine in the 1920s. Disturbed by the resurgence of fascism and anti-Semitism around the world, Ofra travels to Germany, Israel, and Palestine to confront her own deep-seated feelings about Germans and Palestinians, and the tensions between the Holocaust and the Nakba. In the process, she explores the nature of resistance and the possibility of hope.
