WHO BUT WHEN, HOW
Yehuda Sharim | Germany, Israel, USA 2024 | 105 min. | German, Arabic, Hebrew, English, Spanish with engl. subtitles
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 3 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
World premiere
In presence of Yehuda Sharim
In the midst of the catastrophic war between Israel and Hamas, Yehuda Sharim visits his father, who suffers the onset of dementia. His father’s irretrievable presence slips away from Sharim, as does his connectedness to Israel. In an attempt to reconcile his own pain and the violence he encounters, he seeks a genuine dialogue with communities in Israel and Palestine, the USA and Germany.
Sharim’s autobiographical collage WHO BUT WHEN, HOW is a poetry and mediation, a search for justice and humanity that creates a space for the Palestinian-Jewish-Muslim-Arab-Israeli community to redefine and morally substantiate their shared feelings of loss.
Director: Yehuda Sharim
Camera: Yehuda Sharim
Editing: Yehuda Sharim
Sound mix: Scott Szabo
Production: Taara Clarke, Maergaret Breslau, Elizabeth Lopez – Sharim Studio
BIOGRAPHY
Mattijs van de Port is a visual anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam. In his films, all of them shot in Brazil, he keeps returning to realms of transgression – ecstatic religion, violence, eroticism and aesthetics – where humans face the fact that the world does not necessarily comply with their narrations of it. His filmwork includes Saborear Frutas Brasileiras (2013), about the joy of eating fruits and the essay films The Possibility of Spirits (2016); Knots and Holes (2018); The Body Won’t Close (2021); and Where Can I Get Lost (2024)? Van de Port’s films won several awards and prizes, including the prestigious Basil Wright Film Prize in 2021 and the Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award in that same year.
