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SCHOCK SCHALOM
On 06, May 2024 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
It was an emotional filming trip across Germany. For my ZDF documentary SCHOCK SCHALOM, I interviewed eleven young Jews in Berlin, Munich, Osnabrück, Essen and Stuttgart. How are they feeling six months after the Hamas massacre of Israeli babies, children and parents? Do they still feel understood, protected and safe in Germany? What do they think of the Arab community, with some of whom they had done joint projects or go to the same school class? The answers are honest, unembellished and shocking – but despite all the bitterness, they are also surprisingly nuanced.
Medicine of Tomorrow
On 09, Apr 2024 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
Genetic engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Brain-Machine Interfaces, and Climate Catastrophe: For the accompanying documentary to the new Charité series, I have taken on the directorial role alongside Nicolas Hecker. In MEDICINE OF TOMORROW, we join Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen on an exciting journey to researchers and patients in Berlin and Bonn, Magdeburg and Marburg, Weimar and Paris – and learn a lot about high-tech and clever computers, but also about surprisingly simple things that could improve our health in the future.
Media award for ADAM & IDA
On 21, Jul 2023 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
Great joy: Our documentary ADAM & IDA has been nominated for the DAFFNE 2023 the award given my the German Academy for Television. Please keep your fingers crossed! The academy members will vote for the winner film, the award ceremony will take place in Berlin on December 2nd.
Our film has already won the first prize at the German ecumenical media award „Andere Zeiten”. From the jury’s statement: “The film is free of all clichés, does without kitsch and pathos and represents an art form of its own through the incorporated graphic novel elements. Adam & Ida is a humanly touching and at the same time politically significant story that shows how the Shoah continues to have an effect today.”
Arte Reportage: PRICE FIGHTERS
On 28, Mar 2023 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
For one week we were “embedded” at the so-called Polish market in Łęknica on the border to Bad Muskau in Saxony. Why the filming was not easy, I tell in this tagesschau podcast 11KM. The Arte report PRICE FIGHTERS can now be watched in the Arte media library.
Nominierung für CIVIS Medienpreis 2021
On 07, Apr 2022 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
I am very happy and proud that my documentary HEY, I AM A JEW has been nominated for the CIVIS Media Prize 2021 – out of almost 800 submissions from 20 European countries. The prize honors programme achievements in the field of migration, integration and cultural diversity. The winners will be announced on 21st of May. Here is a list of all nominees and the Jury’s Remarks.
Coming soon: ADAM & IDA
On 06, Apr 2022 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
After six years of development, shooting, editing and post-production, my new documentary is finished. ADAM & IDA tells the incredible story of Jewish twins Adam and Ida Paluch, who were separated as toddlers in the ghetto, survived the Holocaust and miraculously found each other again 53 years later. Here you can find the trailer and further information. The film had its world premiere at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg. In Germany, the German version is now online on the ARD streaming platform.
Arte “The Newly Poor in Germany
The work of the food banks and the situation of those, who suffer from the rapidly rising prices, are the subject of a new report for Arte. We were filming in Berlin and Hamburg. The great commitment of the many volunteers is impressive. The film is now online here.
TV-Premiere: HASS, LIEBE, HEIMAT
On 01, Apr 2022 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
Ein junges jüdisches Pärchen wandert aus Polen aus – und geht nach Israel, um sein Glück im Heiligen Land zu suchen. Zwei Israelis wiederum finden sich mitten in Berlin wieder, nicht nur auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat, sondern auch nach den besten Falafel jenseits von Jaffa. Mehr Infos hier: HASS, LIEBE, HEIMAT – ab 12.04.2022 in der Arte-Mediathek.
TV premiere POLEN SHALOM
On 16, Apr 2021 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
POLEN SHALOM my Arte documentary on Jewish life in Poland is now available for free online streaming here.
Start of filming ADAM & IDA
On 15, Apr 2021 | In General | By Jan Tenhaven
I am very pleased to announce that after a long development and financing phase, filming has now begun in Chicago on the documentary ADAM & IDA (working title). The film will tell the incredible story of the Jewish twins who were separated as infants in the Holocaust and found each other again more than half a century later.
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