MEINE VÄTER - PERSONAL MEMORIAM PRAUNHEIM
Deutschland 2021 – Director: Julia von Heinz – Original language: English, German – Subtitles: English – Length: 22 min.
This film will be screened alongside the film MEINE MÜTTER. Please purchase a ticket here for MEINE MÜTTER for both the screening on Sunday, May 17, at HFF Audimax and the @home screening so that you can watch both films.
Julia von Heinz’s 80-year-old father passes away unexpectedly. It is only through his legacy that the filmmaker discovers that the former reserve officer was gay and had been leading a double life. The director reaches out to Rosa von Praunheim, an icon of the gay rights movement. What emerges is a portrait of a headstrong and lonely man. (Hofer Filmtage 2025)
No youth rating
In addition to her work as a director, Julia von Heinz, who holds a doctorate in filmmaking from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, is also active as a screenwriter, producer, and professor at filmuniversity HFF München.
In the Personal Memoriams section, each evening is dedicated to a deceased figure from the world of documentary film – curated and hosted by someone with close professional or personal ties to that person. This evening focuses on filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim, and his film MEINE MÜTTER will be screened. Julia von Heinz, a close friend of Praunheim’s, will host the evening. Her short film MEINE VÄTER will be shown, which explores this relationship that shaped her both personally and artistically.
Be sure to read the eulogy Julia von Heinz wrote to Rosa von Praunheim.
Production: Maze Pictures. Producer: Philipp Kreuzer.
