Without me

Five filmmakers have made a disturbing and provocative omnibus film about the “New Germany”. The first segment, WITHOUT ME, is a semi-autobiographical piece by director Dani Levy concerning a young Jew named Simon living in unified Berlin. The rise in racial attacks makes Simon simultaneously paranoid, paralyzed and passive. His friends find it increasingly difficult to deal with him. His girlfriend finds it harder to cope with his self-pity. Things get even worse when a new tenant moves in across the hall and warns him about “unabashed Jewish speculators who plan to gentrify the building”. Levy’s film is powerful and original statement about fear and isolation. The director: “I am glad I dared to tackle this highly disputed topic and I hope the experience i gathered jolts the audience and asks questions many would chose to ignore. I wanted to shoot with different media, with film as well as with video; to use several levels, fiction and documentary, interviews and inner monologues. The result should be a compact, full, confuse movie, that surprises even at the end.”.