Liberation 1, colour, Germany, 2023

A view of the treetops in the “Ruhegarten” near the maternity home in St. Ottilien. Leaves rustle gently. The wind picks up, the white clouds part and reveal the first patches of blue sky. The trees were planted in 1945/46 when Jewish women were housed here after their liberation from concentration camps to give birth to their children. Silent witnesses, signs of hope. At the end of the film, the treetops fade into the rose window of the church of St. Ottilien. Music by Eliav Kohl, who composed it on site.

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