Treasure | 2024 HSBC German Film Festival Closing Night

Enjoy your choice of wine, sparkling wine or mocktail on arrival as we say auf Wiedersehen to the 2024 HSBC German Film Festival with the premiere of Treasure, direct from the 2024 Berlinale.

Following the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of Soviet control of Poland in the early 1990s, New York-based music journalist Ruth (Lena Dunham, GIRLS) and her Polish father Edek (Stephen Fry, QI), a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, set out on a tour of his homeland.

Visiting Edek’s childhood haunts, Ruth hopes to make sense of her family’s traumatic past. The journey takes them from Warsaw to Łódź, her father’s hometown, to Krakow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Having left Poland and the past behind, Edek is reluctant to engage with Ruth’s quest and his own trauma. So, he follows his own amusing agenda, undermining their trip with his unpredictable and eccentric demeanor, until the two visit the family’s former home and meet the current occupants.

Directed and co-written by Julia von Heinz, loosely based on Australian Lily Brett’s award-winning novel Too Many Men, this touching and resonant drama is the third part of von Heinz’s Aftermath trilogy which deals with the repercussions of the Holocaust in Germany and around the world.

Event Details:

May 29 & June 5 | Check preferred venue for specific dates & times.

Tickets:

Palace Movie Club: $26

General Admission: $31