The Kleist File

A great symbiosis of music and documentary film which creates a true-to-life impression of the sense of community what singing in a choir means. Their film finds humanity in art and magic in music. A moving and immersive cinematic experience of great warmth, emphasizing the unstoppable power of community in times of isolation and understanding how music brings people together.

From the Negev desert to Silicon Valley and Prague, a journey through time in the footsteps of the golem, the creature forged by man to serve and protect him, and its descendant, the robot.

Dieu Hao Do, whose parents found refuge in Germany and were part of the Chinese minority in Vietnam, embarks on a very personal journey to meet his relatives on three continents. He confronts his mother, encounters his aunts and uncles in Germany, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City and asks, “What are your memories of the war in Vietnam? Of the exodus? And how did the refugee experience and torn-apart state of the family affect you over the years?” And he wants to know: “Can the trauma of war be inherited?”

In psychosis seminars, despair, exuberance, fear, suffering and excessive demands, but also courage and the power to cope, have their say. Psychosis seminars promote security and confidence to face the distress caused by psychosis without fear. Psychosis seminars are not a science, nor are they a form of psychotherapy, but they do impart knowledge and experience. Psychosis seminars explore the scope for contradictory truths and create sensitivity for the inner realities of the seminar participants. People experiencing psychosis, families and professionals are confronted with themselves, their helplessness and their strengths, psychiatric professionals in particular with the kindness of their help lines. Relatives and professionals are only familiar with psychosis from the perspective of others and are able to deal with the self-perspective of people with psychosis.

We are in a room where people tell each other experiences that are not actually told to each other. These are experiences that they have had themselves and experiences of people who are very close to them. It's about fear and violence. It's about families that are destroyed. It is about existence.