The Passport program features eight German films that explore different cinematic styles and genres. So what is Jackson most excited for? Well, that’s hard to say. Because it seems he loves all of them. From Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt, a biopic about the German-Jewish political philosopher, to Lore, Cate Shortland’s tale of three siblings who must traverse hundreds of miles of Bavaria after their Nazi parents are imprisoned, the program will certainly touch on Germany’s darkest era. But it won’t dwell.
(Full disclosure: Milwaukee Magazine is a sponsor of the Passport program, which is now in its third year).
Trailer: Hannah Arendt
Trailer: Lore
Because the point of the program is emphasize the range in German cinema. And Alexa Karolinski’s Oma & Bella does just that. It’s a documentary of two 80-somethings who live together in present-day Berlin and use their cooking skills and camaraderie to work through their memories and preserve their heritage.
Trailer: Oma & Bella
*In this case, hybrid documentary means that the film was shot to look like a documentary, but it is in fact fictionalized.
