Films by Susanne Dzeik

Germany 2022, 29 min
by Sonya Winterberg, Susanne Dzeik

Sonya Winterberg, an award-winning author from Germany, is the writer-inresidence in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda during the summer of 2022. Her temporary home: the district library in a place rich with German heritage and even a German name: Memel. Together with documentary filmmaker Susanne Dzeik, she sets out on a tour of the region, discovering traces of the past in the most unlikely places. Here, bordering Russia’s Kaliningrad region, contemporary politics play into the exploration

Germany 2012, 50 min
by Malou Berlin

In a November night in 1992, neo-nazis set fire to the home of the Turkish-German family Arslan. Seven-year old Ibrahim and his mother Hava were able to escape, but his grandmother, his younger sister and cousin died in the fire. Every year until today, the surviving members of the family commemorate the terrible events with a public event at the house in Mölln. For 4 years, director Malou Berlin accompanied family Arslan at their attempt to find their own course between remembrance, mourning a