A young Jew and his crazy idea against forgetting
Yaar sees himself as the most un-Jewish Jew in the world. He loves Star Wars and computer games. He's fed up with his father and his Holocaust stories. Yaar rebels by developing a computer game in which Jews can defend themselves and Nazis can act humanely. Then his own family history interferes.
TACHELES – The Heart of the Matter shows how the trauma of the survivors can even affect the third generation. The film asks the burning question from the perspective of a 21-old:
What does the Holocaust have to do with me today?
„TACHELES – The Heart of the Matter” is a co-production of HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduction and SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM in cooperation with ZDF/3sat and WDR, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Jewish Conference Claims against Germany
Distribution: Real Fiction Cologne
World Sales: Ruth Films Jerusalem
Nomination Grimme Prize 2023 2023
Preselection German Film Award 2022 2022
Nomination PRIX EUROPA 2022 2022
Nomination German Documentary Film Award 2021 2021
FESTIVALS
DOK.fest München
New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Washington Jewish Film Festival
Kasseler Dokfest
Achtung Berlin – the new Berlin film award
London Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival in partnership with Hot Docs
Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival
Let´s Dok
SWR Doku-Festival
Jewish Film Festival Hamburg
Jewish Film Days Frankfurt am Main
Jewish Culture Days Braunschweig
Jewish Culture Days between Harz and Heide
Klezmer Festival Fürth
„TACHELES – The Heart of he Matter“ in the educational work:
Learning by Docs Europe - "Nexus", an educational initiative of DOK.fest Munich, Docs Barcelona & Thessaloniki Film Festival
SchoolCinemaWeeks via Vision Kino - Network for Film and Media Competence
FILM TALKS
DOKfest Munich: Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm, Yaar Harell in conversation with Ysabel Fantou (conversation in german)
London Human Rights Watch Filmfestival: Jana Matthes, Yaar Harell in Conversation with Kate Marrison organized by the Goethe Institute (conversation in English)