While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in the Third Reich and divided Germany: "the third brother" is the filmmaker's grandfather, who, in confronting her father, tries to overcome decades of speechlessness and, in the process, to understand where in the past her father's sense of family fell by the wayside.
May 2025
BIRDWATCHER tells the story of people who are passionate about observing birds and are committed to preserving their habitats. The world of birds becomes a metaphor for the state of society in a time of great upheaval.
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