Resisters
Located in Berlin and framed by a personal voiced address to the revolutionary Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, the film brings the largely silenced stories of ordinary individuals who resisted fascism during the Third Reich, often at the cost of their own lives, into the present. In contrast to large state memorials to the victims of the Holocaust many of the individual resisters to the Nazis are memorialised by Stolpersteine, small stumbling blocks in the pavements outside the buildings where they lived. Their stories are put in conversation with contemporary resistance against the right-wing nationalist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) through the activities of the Berlin branch of the group Omas Gegen Rechts (Grandmothers Against the Right).
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Jill DanielsDirectorJourney to the South
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Jill DanielsWriterBreathing Still
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Jill DanielsProducer
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Gertrud GrafKey Cast
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Walter PetersonKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Feature
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Runtime:59 minutes
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Completion Date:October 31, 2021
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Production Budget:3,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:Germany
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Language:English, German
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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German International Ethnographic Film FestivalGottingen
Germany
May 25, 2022
Europe
Official Selection -
11th Social Justice Film FestivalChennai
India
April 15, 2022
World
Official Selection -
Radical Film NetworkGenova
Italy
June 16, 2022
Official Selection -
Festival International de Cinéma et Mémoire CommuneNador
Morocco
December 17, 2022
North Africa
Official Selection -
Flight/MostraGenoa
Italy
October 28, 2022
Official Selection -
Freedom Film FestivalChennai
India
August 17, 2022
Official Selection -
Helsinki Education Film Festival International (HEFFI)Helsinki
Finland
November 12, 2022
Official Selection -
Essex Documentary Film FestivalColchester
United Kingdom
November 18, 2022
United Kingdom
Official Selection -
Visible Evidence Documentary ConferenceGdansk
Poland
August 17, 2022
Official Selection -
Courage Film FestivalBerlin
Germany
March 9, 2023
Official Selection -
ProToPost International Communist Film Festival
Italy
Best Protagonist Award
Born in Manchester, England, Jill Daniels is a renowned British filmmaker and writer. She is vice chair of the Media Practice & Education Journal and teaches Film at University of East London. Her innovative documentary essay films explore memory, place, Jewish identity and autobiography. She has won many international awards for her films, including best experimental film award for My Private Life II a film about sexual identity in her family, at the acclaimed Ann Arbor Experimental Film Festival in the USA. Resisters is the latest in her series of films exploring resistance to the rise of nationalism in Berlin. The first film in the series, Breathing Still (2018), won the best documentary award at the Small Axe Radical Short Film Festival in 2019. Her website is www.jilldanielsfilms.com