People Can Die Twice

Short films

International Forum 2023

Open Eyes 2023

COUNTRY: Germany YEAR 2019 – 2022 RUNTIME: 47 min DIRECTED BY: Hamze Bytyci

LANGUAGE(S): German, English SUBTITLES: German, English

SCREENINGS

1.10., 21:30, kommkino | Tickets

2.10., 18:30, kommkino | to Guest: Hamze Bytyci, Lisa Smith, Veronika Patočková | Tickets

SYNOPSIS

Seven short films commemorate the Porajmos, the genocide of Roma* and Sinti* during the Second World War, and illustrate the stories of survivors and victims through multifaceted animated images. These are seven stories and fates that not only tell “painful truths,” and focus death and loss. They are also stories of resistance, cohesion, self-assertion and finding one’s way back into life.

Each film is individually illustrated and animated and rich in detail. The drawings, collages and archive materials thus create images that stay. “The second time people die is when they are forgotten,” says the title short film. But these films call to remember and make history tangible and alive.