Film Screening
Dear Fear

Thu, 07.11.2024
6:00 PM - 20:00 Auckland, The Vic

Liebe Angst / Dear Fear: Documentary, 2023, 81 minutes

An inescapable family tragedy spanning three generations.
Kim has her music. Kim has her dogs. Kim has her faith. Kim struggles, every day: with anxiety, for a bit of normality, to stand on her own two feet. Kim's mother, Lore, was deported to Auschwitz at the age of six. To this day, Lore is a DP, a displaced person. Lore has her index cards. From morning till night, she transcribes articles from the daily newspaper, archiving them in boxes and baskets. All her life, Lore has been silent: about her mother, about the hiding place where she survived, about Tom, her son, Kim's brother, who took his own life. Kim instead wants to talk: about her childhood with Lore, about Tom, about the scarred lives they both lead. There is a lot of anger, a lot of strength, and a love between mother and daughter that was always there but could not be expressed.

Directed by Sandra Prechtel, starring Kim Seligsohn, Lore Kübler