Director Thomas Heise was born and raised in East Berlin, and he’s been working long enough in documentaries that his earliest films were suppressed by GDR censors. His understanding of the German …
was born and raised in East Berlin, and he’s been working long enough in documentaries that his earliest films were suppressed by GDR censors. His understanding of the German national character is rooted in the belief in its potential for curbing freedoms at a minimum and tipping into violent nationalism and fascism in its darkest moments.
Screening in the experimental Wavelengths section at the Toronto Film Festival — as opposed to TIFF Docs, the larger repository for nonfiction — “Heimat Is a Space in Time” is notable as much for what it doesn’t do formally than what it does. It isn’t a fly-on-the-wall observational doc. It doesn’t have a single talking head. It doesn’t have a conventional narrator or titles to establish context for whatever period a section of the film happens to cover.
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