Starting with reflections on the film The Zone of Interest, film and media scholar Lea Wohl von Haselberg talks about the representation of the Shoah in film. From here, she draws an arc to an "under-complex politicisation" of the film world and talks about the social pressure to position oneself that goes hand in hand with current conflicts. She argues in favour of keeping spaces open that do justice to the complexity of the debates and in which the inclusion and exclusion of people and stories in the film industry can be discussed responsibly. Lea Wohl von Haselberg is curator of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg and co-editor of the magazine Jalta - Position zur jüdischen Gegenwart. 

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October 7 and its images evoke memories of the Shoah. The film historian Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann talks about the cinematic handling of the visual aesthetics of the perpetrators' material. How can propaganda-ideologically formed images be dealt with? What messages are inscribed in this material and how can they be interpreted? In this context, Ebbrecht-Hartmann points out the dilemma that the current cultural debate is hardly in a position to emancipate itself from the "Hamas script". Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann teaches visual culture, film and media studies and cultural history of memory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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