Jewish Museum Hohenems Shows: The Hearing

Description

What happens when the future depends on telling one's life story? For the film, four rejected asylum seekers relive the hearing of their reasons for fleeing and thus shed light on the core of the asylum process. Those who manage to describe their personal danger in their home country 'credibly and without contradiction' have better chances of a positive asylum decision. Will the respondents succeed this time in describing their memories of traumatic experiences in a way that meets the official criteria? Through a simple role reversal, the power dynamic is turned around for once, and the interviewers from SEM answer the questions of the asylum seekers. THE HEARING (2023) thus not only provides insight into the crucial and delicate hearing situation but also questions the asylum process itself. About the director:
Lisa Gerig, born in 1990, studied film with a focus on editing in Zurich and Geneva. Her graduation film ZAUNGESPRÄCHE tells in a radically subjective way about the situation of prisoners in the Zurich deportation prison and won several awards. From 2018 to 2023, she completed a diploma in documentary film directing at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences for Media, where she won the Förderpreis für Junge Studierende in 2019. Today, she works as a freelance filmmaker in Zurich and Cologne.

Highlights

• Documentary film by Lisa Gerig
• 81-minute runtime
• German with English subtitles

General Information

The film screening of 'The Hearing' takes place at the Jewish Museum Hohenems. The documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by rejected asylum seekers during their hearing and questions the asylum process.

Location

Färbergasse 15, 6850 Dornbirn, Austria

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