A Jewish Problem
Ron Rothschild
© Ron Rothschild
A Jewish Problem
Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm
Die Berlin-Premiere und die Festivalscreenings von A JEWISH PROBLEM finden in Kooperation mit dem Jüdischen Filmfestival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB) statt.
Von 2007 bis 2010 diente Ron als Kameramann für die israelische Armee. Heute lebt er in Berlin, und der Krieg scheint weit entfernt – doch die Spuren seiner Heimat, Erinnerungen an Palästina und das Echo der Gewalt sind allgegenwärtig. Begleitet von seiner Stimme werden wir Zeug:innen eines schmerzhaften, persönlichen Schicksals von Vertreibung – zwischen Berlin, Palästina und Israel. Aufnahmen der Gespräche mit seiner Großmutter, Familienarchive und Filmmaterial aus seiner Zeit in den besetzten Gebieten, ergänzen sich zu einem Film, der sich zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, zwischen persönlichem Erinnern und kollektiver Geschichte situiert. Die Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit im Exil provoziert widersprüchliche Gefühle und offene Fragen, denen sich Ron stellt, ohne sie aufzulösen.
The film tells a family story set between Berlin and Palestine. A story marked by violence, which begins with the Jewish grandmother’s flight from Nazi Germany and intertwines with the protagonist’s own experiences as an Israeli soldier in Palestine
Ron Rothschild
Ron Rothschild *1988 in Tel Aviv, schloss sein Studium an der Thelma-Yellin-Schule für Kunst in Giv’atajim im Fachbereich Film ab. Neben seinem BA-Studium der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, arbeitete er an mehreren Filmproduktionen und drehte Musikvideos. Nach dem MA-Studium an der Universität Potsdam, begann er 2021 sein Regiestudium an der DFFB.
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Regiekommentar
»Finding words in times of genocide is almost impossible. Anything more than “It has to stop,we have to somehow make it stop” feels like a luxury. Times that call for action more then for words. For people with personal connections to Palestine and Israel, however, finding these words is a question of who we are. It is crucial for maintining a stand against killing and destruction. A personal stance against genocide might be small/insignificant, but it keeps us from floating in a reality where nothing seems to make sense anymore. When I stand in front of a Palestinian—even in the streets of Berlin—I know I represent an oppressor. As a former Israeli soldier, that part of me is beyond denial. But when I stand in front of Europeans, and Germans in paritcular, I become a victim of (and collaborator in) this same violence — a person whose family fled Europe and whose life, shaped by the sword, was marked by European antisemitism and colonialism. This conflict of roles—one I share with many Jews who condemn Israeli violence in Palestine—is the main impulse for the exploration in A JEWISH PROBLEM. Confronting this conflict is not only essential for Jews. Germans might recognize it as a mirror of their own divided loyalties: torn between the moral responsibility toward the immediate victims of their historical violence—the Israelis—and the moral responsibility toward the victims of those victims—the Palestinians. Too often, this tension leads to moral shortcuts, almost always at the expense of Palestinian lives. Taking a stance is imperative, but it comes with a price. Beyond social inconveniences, it requires us to admit that some pain will not be resolved. Pain that was caused to us, or that we caused, and that is here to stay. Israel was meant to be a quick fix for European antisemitism—a magical home for Jews that would solve the unsolvable aftermath of the Holocaust. It resulted in the genocide of Palestinians. A holocaust, independence, a Nakba. Both Europeans and Israelis bear their own responsibilities in this, and in finding a different way forward. A JEWISH PROBLEM is a small step in the search for a home not built on killing and destruction.«