„Von dem, was bleibt“ nominated for the German Human Rights Film Award

The documentary film "Von dem, was bleibt" by Kunsthochschule Kassel alumni Johanna Groß and Daniel Hellwig has been nominated for the German Human Rights Film Award in the "University" category. The film prize, which is awarded every two years in Nuremberg, honors outstanding productions on human rights issues.

"Von dem, was bleibt" was already nominated for the Hessian Film Award last year and received an honorable mention at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival.

Synopsis
In 1944, the trail of Johanna's missing great-grandfather is lost in what is now Moldova - an age-old family secret, as Liesel, Johanna's grandmother, was still a child when Josef disappeared during the war. She has never come to terms with her grief over her missing father. But then Edgar, Liesel's husband, discovers hundreds of field post letters in the cellar of their house. A search for clues over 1,800 kilometers and more than eighty years into the past begins. The family never found out whether Josef died and under what circumstances. The German War Graves Commission, whose headquarters are in Kassel, estimates that around 1.3 million German soldiers from the Second World War are still missing today. One of them is Johanna's great-grandfather. Equipped with his field post letters, she tries to find out more about the fate of her great-grandfather and sheds light on how the loss of her husband, father and grandfather affected the different generations of her family.

Johanna Groß studied Media Art/Media Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and then Film and Moving Image with Prof. Jan Peters at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Filmmaker Daniel Hellwig received his Master of Fine Arts from the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

German Human Rights Film Award
The German Human Rights Film Award honors filmmakers who deal with the topic of human rights in an outstanding way in their cinema, television and film productions. The films contribute to the understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and make an independent contribution to current human rights debates. At the same time, the award recognizes the socio-political commitment of the filmmakers. The sponsoring organization awards the German Human Rights Film Prize every two years. The films compete in six categories. The awards are presented in Nuremberg on the eve of International Human Rights Day. All categories are endowed.

Further information:
www.menschenrechts-filmpreis.de