Sundance Selects - The Flat (2011)

Sundance Selects - The Flat (2011)

In the gripping documentary The Flat, filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of his recently deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. While going through her belongings, Goldfinger finds evidence suggesting that she and her husband were good friends with Leopold von Mildenstein, a leading official in the Nazi propaganda ministry - and remained friends with him following World War II. Disturbed that his grandparents could have continued a close relationship with an influential Nazi after the Holocaust, Goldfinger begins an unsettling journey into his family's history, visiting a peaceful town in Germany to interview von Mildenstein's elderly daughter about what really went on with their ancestors 75 years earlier - and discovers that knowing the truth can be a terrible burden. Both arresting and heartbreaking, The Flat is a real-life suspense story about how the past can return to haunt the present.

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Awards & Nominations

  • Ophir Award Best documentary Winner.
  • Bavarian Film Award Best Documentary Winner.
  • Jerusalem Film Festival Award Best Director of a Documentary Winner.
  • The Israeli Documentary Filmakers Forume Award Best Director Winner.
  • The Israeli Documentary Filmakers Forum Award Best Film Winner.
  • The Israeli Documentary Filmakers Forum Award Best Research Winner.
  • Minneapolis St. Paul IFF 2012 Best Documentary Winner.
  • The German Arthouse Cinema Guild 2012 Award Best Documentary Winner.
  • The Toronto Film Festival 2012 Best Documentary Dvie E. Stein Award Winner.
  • Tribeca Film Festival 2012Best Editing Documentary Winner.
  • Krakow Film Festival 2012 Jury Prize Foreign Film Winner.
  • New Zealand Doc Edge 2012 honorable Mention Winner.
  • Jewish Motifs International Film Festival Warsaw 2013 Winner.
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