EINE FRAU

“You have to remember in order to forget”: Jeanine Meerapfel's elegant, deeply moving film essay at first glance appears to be a search for traces of her mother's restless life between France, Germany and Argentina, but it's also the portrait of a whole generation that was always on the move without a home. In the end it's also a self-portrait of the artist herself, an award-winning filmmaker and mentor for many decades who feels indispensable for the German cultural scene.