Heimat Is a Space in Time

Biography/Family, Austria/Germany 2019

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Using letters and documents, Thomas Heise examines his own family history over four generations in this monumental work. Language and images combine to create a haunting portrait of a family, a country and a century. What remains? Biographies leave traces. So do the passing of time. Thomas Heise examines how the one relates to the other in "Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit". The film follows the biographical traces of a family torn apart at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. It is about people who once found each other by chance, then lost each other. Their remaining children and grandchildren now disappear. It is about speaking and silence. First love and lost happiness. Fathers, mothers, sons, brothers, affairs, hurt and happiness in changing landscapes that bear different, interwoven traces of time. A collage of images, sounds, letters, diaries, notes, noises, voices, fragments. "Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit" is a reflection on time and the love in it, the people, in sounds, images and language. There is always a residue that does not disappear.
219 min
HD
FSK 6
Audio language:
German
Subtitles:
English

Awards

German Documentary Film Award 2019
Berlin International Film Festival 2019 Caligari Film Award
Jerusalem Film Festival 2019 Chantal Akerman Award

More information

Director:

Thomas Heise

Writer:

Thomas Heise

Editor:

Chris Wright

Original title:

Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit

Original language:

German

Further titles:

Heimat ist ein Ort aus Zeit

Format:

16:9 HD, B/W

Age rating:

FSK 6

Audio language:

German

Subtitles:

English