CHRIS THE SWISS (Anja Kofmel 2018)


Komel's glamorous twenty-seven-year-old cousin Christian Wurtenberg, ostensibly a war journalist died in mysterious circumstances when she was only ten. She explores the facts of this event that always haunted her, and in the process examines the tangled context of the Balkans wars and delves into what leads adventurous young men to put themselves in harms way, especially in wartime.

This is a brilliant amalgam of archival footage, documentary, and Kofmel's own beautiful and evocative animations.

Berlin & Beyond showtime:
Thu. March 14, 2019 6:00 p.m.
Goethe-Institut, San Francisco
San Francisco Premiere