Films of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin | April 23, 2024
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- Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
- Opening remarks at 6:15 p.m.
- Doors close at 9:00 p.m.
In 2023, over 15,000 visitors experienced the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, where they participated in an exciting exchange of ideas and drew inspiration from over 42 outstanding international documentary films. Now, a specially curated selection of the most popular films from the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin is coming to Washington, D.C.
On the opening night in Washington, D.C., the German Embassy Washington and the Goethe-Institut Washington invite you to a screening of
Fritz Bauer’s Legacy — Justice Has No Expiration. The evening will begin with a welcome address from
Axel Dittmann, the Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the filmmaker
Cornelia Partmann and
Eli Rosenbaum, the recently retired Counselor for War Crimes Accountability at the U.S. Department of Justice. There will also be an opening reception with light refreshments.
The Film
Fritz Bauer’s Legacy — Justice Has No Expiration (2022)
Directed by Isabel Gathof, Sabine Lamby, Cornelia Partmann
98 min
Germany
German with English subtitles
Probably for the last time former SS-guards recently faced trial for their role in German concentration camps, as for many decades Germany’s justice system had difficulty dealing with its countless unpunished Nazi crimes. However, already in 1963 General State Prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903-1968) aptly indicated that one should also prosecute small cogs in the machines of industrialized mass murder. Interspersed with stirring and moving first hand witness accounts of concentration camp survivors
Fritz Bauer’s Legacy not only reveals a fascinating history of why it took so long for justice to find its way into German courts but it also effectively illustrates its significance for a future without mass murders and flagrant injustices.
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