HOLIDAY IN BERLIN & CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE”
FRI, 12/4, 5:30pm, 65 min program
SAG HARBOR CINEMA
Two poignant short films–Holiday In Berlin and CHILDREN NO MORE: “Were and are Gone” use the power of visual evidence to demonstrate the horror of war and the importance of remembering the lives destroyed by senseless violence.
HOLIDAY IN BERLIN
35min
Directors: Don Lenzer, Bettina Volz
Producers: Don Lenzer, Bettina Volz
Holiday In Berlin explores Germany’s rapid descent into authoritarianism in the 1930s through the filmmakers’ personal discovery of four Berlin memorials to the Nazi era. The memorials, which were designed by conceptual artists during the 1990s, appear throughout Berlin as a reminder of the ghastly crimes of the Nazis. Each of these memorials, located in the exact location where the events they memorialize occurred, leads the filmmakers to confront the incomprehensibility of this horrific past and the desire to try to keep the memory of it alive.
Don Lenzer was a cinematographer on the Academy Award-winning films Woodstock, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing, and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. He lives on the East End of Long Island with his wife, Bettina Volz, a clinical psychologist. Holiday In Berlin is their first documentary collaboration.
CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE”
30min
Director: Hilla Medalia
Producers: Sheila Nevins, Yael Melamede, Hilla Medalia
A quietly powerful observational short about the vigil that began in March 2025 with a handful of Israeli protesters standing silently in a public square in Tel Aviv, each holding a photo of a child killed in Gaza. Confronted by the images, some passersby avert their eyes. Others react with denial, sorrow, or rage. Yet week after week, new photos are added. And each week, more people join the quiet act of protest. This is an Academy Award-nominated short film.
Hilla Medalia is an Israeli film director, producer, and writer. She is the founder of Medalia Productions, a documentary production company operating in Israel and the U.S. Her Peabody Award-winning film To Die in Jerusalem focused on an Israeli mother and the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber.